MP becomes patron of Women's Engineering Society
02/05/2013 Women's Engineering Society (WES)
Meg Munn MP has become patron of the Women's Engineering Society, the oldest women's engineering group in the world which works towards increasing gender diversity in engineering.The MP will be working with the Women's Engineering Society (WES) to help ensure that more female students from science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects go on to careers in the professions after graduating, as currently less than half of STEM graduates do so. The Society will also be working with the MP to support companies and organisations to increase gender diversity, and to launch a new awareness day to celebrate Women in Engineering in June 2014, which will mark the 95th anniversary of the Women's Engineering Society.
Meg Munn MP said: I am delighted to become patron of the Women's Engineering Society and I am looking forward to working with them to address some of the issues facing women in STEM. We know that the new innovations that will help us all to live longer and improve our quality of life will come from the next generation of scientists, technologists and engineers. Yet, we know that there are job vacancies in these fields, where women continue to be underrepresented. The work of the Women's Engineering Society will play a vital role in ensuring that these issues are addressed as they are important for us all."
Dawn Bonfield, WES Vice President, said: "We know that more women are needed in engineering to increase the thought diversity that is necessary to solve the global engineering challenges we face as a society. One of the challenges is to get the message over to the younger generation of girls that engineering is a great career to follow."
For more information on the Women's Engineering Society please visit: www.wes.org.uk
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