In this article, Lanna Deamer, Reporter at The Manufacturer, speaks with Elizabeth Donnelly, CEO of The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to learn more about the charity and its professional network of women engineers, scientists and technologists offering inspiration, support and professional development; as well as the history behind International Women in Engineering Day and how it all began.
What is the history of the Women’s Engineering Society and INWED? Elizabeth Donnelly, CEO of The Women’s Engineering Society ED: The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) was founded in 1919, just at the end of the First World War. The government at that time decided that all the women that had been…
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