Lesley Davis

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• Lesley Davis
• 10th December 2003

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Aims of the Project

• BALANCE - An Inclusive Approach to Address the
  Balance of Women in (Manufacturing) Engineering
• This project will gather, disseminate and embed
  existing good practices in developing
  methodologies to generate an engineering
  community to which more balanced numbers of women
  and men are attracted, recruited and retained.
  Drawing from and building on existing initiatives
  and studies, it will engender an environment in
  which staff, students and employers will both be
  aware of and understand the attitudes and
  perceptions specific to women in engineering.

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Why more women?

• If there were more women in engineering
• The responsibility for attracting more women into
  engineering lies with
• What influences women (and men) to enter
  engineering?
• schooling - single sex, fee-paying
• family - father/mother an engineer, eldest/only
  child
• exposure - taster day, insight course

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Focus of the Work

• Promoting Engineering in Schools
• Womens Engineering Society Student Groups (WES
  Groups)
• Mentoring for Female Engineers
• Building Awareness

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Resources

• Initiatives Report
• Case Studies
• Profiles
• Resource Packs
• implementation hints and tips
• experiences of successful (and not so successful)
  implementations
• examples of materials

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• This information has been produced in conjunction
  with the Balance Project.
• The project is funded by the Higher Education
  Funding Council for England and the Department
  for Higher and Further Education, Training and
  Employment under the Fund for the Development of
  Teaching and Learning
• For more information please see www.balance.ac.uk