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National Women in Engineering Day UK 2016

National Women in Engineering Day in the UK was set up by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. On 23 June 2014 WES wanted to focus attention on the great opportunities for women in engineering, at a time when it had never been more important to address the engineering skills shortage. By encouraging girls into engineering careers we will not only be increasing diversity and inclusion – a business imperative – but enabling us to fill the substantial future job opportunities that have been predicted in this sector.

National Women in Engineering Day (#NWED2016) is now an International awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry.

Here at MWH, our women engineers are crucial to our success. We want to continue to develop a truly inclusive culture and encourage more women to join us and keep those already with us demonstrating the opportunities for career development.

The sub-theme for NWED2016 is #RaisingProfiles and to celebrate this theme take a look at some of our fantastic, inspiring woman engineers who we are honored to have working for us here at MWH.

Charity Mosienyane

Civil Engineer Project Manager, Charity Mosienyane joined MWH in Melbourne, Australia in February 2006. Charity has always wanted to travel and see the world and her career with MWH has certainly helped her to do just that. Learn more about how choosing a career in engineering has given Charity opportunities to travel and to Build a Better World.

Katherine Leishman

Graduate Civil Engineer Katherine Leishman joined MWH in 2013. Based in Warrington, UK, Katherine’s work has involved solving environmental and water treatment issues and she most enjoys working as part of team and finding a single best fit solution. Learn more about how Katherine’s love of math’s and science evolved into a career in engineering.

Mariana Goncalves

Wastewater Network Modeller Mariana Goncalves joined MWH in March 2015. Based in Warrington, UK, Mariana works as a wastewater modeller and is also part of the Water Innovators team profiling WaterAid and the work it does every single day, working towards Building a Better World. Learn more about Mariana, why she chose engineering as a career and what excites her about her job.

Shenali Tissaaratchi

Civil Engineer Shenali Tissaaratchi joined MWH in 2006. Currently based in London, UK, Shenali has had the opportunity to work on an exciting construction project in the heart of the capital. Learn more about Shenali and what she has learned about relationships and trust, why these are important in her day to day work and what she feels has been invaluable to her career.

Recent Statistics from WES

  • Diversity matters: companies are 15% more likely to perform better if they are gender diverse.
  • Diversity is crucial for innovation: in a global survey, 85% corporate diversity and talent leaders agreed that “A diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to encouraging different perspectives and ideas that drive innovation”.
  • In the UK only 9% of the engineering workforce is female. And only 6% of registered engineers and technicians (i.e. CEng, IEng, EngTech) are women.