APWEN Commences Activities for SheEngineer 30% Club - Kennedy Osagie

 





The project activities for the SheEngineer 30% Club, an APWEN initiative funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering UK began on Saturday 29th October, 2022 with a Project Initiation Meeting held at the Conference Room of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).

SheEngineer 30% Club was conceived to improve diversity and inclusion in STEM-based organizations and reduce skill shortage by encouraging more girls to take up STEM-based careers. The project will be implemented across the aviation, automotive and energy sectors where there is a noticeable shortage of females. It would harp on the need for employers to retain, promote and support talented women and also create positive workplaces through training in equality and diversity issues and support the development and implementation of gender inclusion policies. SheEngineer 30% Club will deploy her strategies in four distinct phases:
 
      Reach Out- To attract more women
      Welcome In - To remove bias in recruitment
      Pull through - To pull women through the promotional pipeline
      Hold On - To retain talented women

The project would address the following challenges:

• Women underrepresentation in the engineering sector and engineering education
• Skill shortage exacerbated by underrepresentation
• Gender inequalities in engineering education and practice in Nigeria.
• Challenges of discrimination, harassments, and victimization of professional female engineers
• Gender barriers in accessing engineering as a career for women

Images of participants at the meeting









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Royal Academy funds SheEngineer 30% Club - Ebunoluwa Sessou Culled from Vanguard Newspaper December 15th, 2022

Image
As part of efforts to build a voluntary network of professional engineering institutions, engineering businesses and organizations in the aviation, automotive and energy sectors committed to achieving a 30 percent minimum gender balance within their workforce by 2030, Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria organized a SheEngineer 30% Club Mentors Virtual Training Workshop for Mentors. Aimed at using a 30 by 30 strategy (a commitment to allocate 30 percent positions to women in engineering, the workshop SheEngineer 30 percent Club, is a Royal Academy of Engineering UK funded Initiative. In her speech, President of APWEN Engr. Dr Elizabeth Eterigho FNSE, FNSChE congratulate the grant awardee, Engr. Dr. Felicia Agubata FNSE, for securing the project under the phase 4 African Catalyst grant from the Royal Academy of engineering, UK. Speaking on the need for effective mentors and mentees relationship, Eterigho lamented that, shortage of young engineers in filling up the spac...
Read more

APWEN Empowers Mentors to Boost Female Engineers’ Inclusion in Aviation, Automotive Sectors - Funmi Ogundare​ - Culled from ThisDay Newspaper 16th December, 2022

Image
  The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) recently held the SheEngineer 30% Club mentors training workshop, aimed at​ improving​ diversity and inclusion of female engineers in organizations in the aviation, automotive and energy​ sectors. The initiative, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, will also drive profitability, productivity, creativity and reduce skills shortage by encouraging more girls to take up engineering courses and careers.​ Speaking during the virtual programme, the Project Manager, Dr. Felicia Agubata noted that APWEN was​ committed to achieving a 30 per cent minimum gender balance within their workforce by 2030 using a 30 by 30 strategy (a commitment to allocate 30 per cent positions to women in engineering in these organizations yearly).​ According to her, “the project will improve and​ strengthen the internal capacity of APWEN to tackle gender inequality in the engineering sector, build up an engineering talent pipeline wi...
Read more