Many women we speak to in manufacturing say that a career in industry was never their first choice. However, once in the sector they can’t imagine doing anything else. We spoke to one woman who has worked in the steel industry for 25 years and has never looked back.
As of 2018 nearly 58,000 women are working as professional engineers according to WISE – image courtesy of Depositphotos. “It was never my intention to get into engineering,” Barbara Evans says to me. It was “by accident” that she started her role at Tata Steel in South Wales over two decades…
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