Women are vital

Published on Jan 18, 2018

Women are vital to solving the engineering shortage crisis...... find out how to attract more women to your company.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Women are vital

to solving the engineering sector's skill shortage

Here in the UK we have the lowest figures

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So how can your company attract

more female engineers?

Simply saying you value diversity

is not enough!
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#1 Support from the TOP

is crucial to change the culture

#2 Introduce gender based targets

Create a diversity scorecard to help with monitoring and accountability
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#3 Develop measurements

for inclusion and diversity, tied to business goals
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#4 Introduce regular internal surveys

to assess diversity, inclusion, culture
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#5 Tackle Unconscious Bias

Monitor with an anonymous complaints system
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#6 Look for bias in the imagery used

in recruitment, on your website and literature
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#7 Run training sessions for men

to help them understand the barriers and challenges facing women

#8 Introduce flexible working

and enable agile ways of working

#9 Promote visible role models

Senior staff need to be visibly supporting women
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#10 Introduce a diversity inclusion week

#11 Build strong ties

with local Schools and Universities
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#12 Adopt INCLUSIVE recruitment practices

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#13 Avoid all male interview panels

#14 Re-evaluate job post descriptions

Words are powerful.
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#15 Emphasise the societal impacts

Women are inspired by solutions that better society
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You need to demonstrate why your company

is a great place for women to work

“Women are the largest untapped potential… not changing this as soon as possible would be a catastrophic loss for humanity.”
(Tengelin)

Solve the skills shortage - get more women involved.