WFEOWiE Standing Committee Women in Engineering and Technology

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WFEO-WiE Standing CommitteeWomen in Engineering
and Technology

• By Eng. Marie-Hélène Therre, President FI
  mhtherre_at_cnisf.org

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Worldwide context of Engineering

• The new worldwide challenges
• Growing needs of innovation thus competencies
• Speeding up of the technologies developments
• Globalization of the resources and scientific
  projects
• Women represent more than 50 of the worldwide
  population
• In most of the countries women access to high
  level education
• Too few embrace the engineering carrers
• Very few or none at decision making positions

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Worldwide context of Engineering

• Engineering world needs women
• Women are one growing source for the entreprises
• Women offer complementarity in projects and in
  the decision making process
• No more need of muscles, brains are wanted !
• Within our organisations,
• Number of women engineers has to increase
• In order to develop attractivity and retention in
  engineering

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 Women in Engineering and Technology a new
WFEO standing committee

• As decided on 28th feb 2008 by the Executive
  Board in Paris
• Conseil National des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques
  de France (CNISF) is the body hosting the
  WFEO-WiE ST
• To develop and attract more women in engineering
  area
• To fight the lack of women engineers at
  professional positions
• To promote the place of women in engineering and
  improve women engineers representation within its
  organisation

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Benefits for WFEO

• Developing its visibility within the scientific
  and engineering networks by the communication on
  the WiE Standing Committee
• Increasing its image on the new social challenges
  of scientific careers
• Confirming WFEO position as strong stakeholders
  in the Human Resources matters in the worldwide
  sustainable area
• Contributing to the challenges of tomorrow,
  embedded within the Millenium Development Goals

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Scope of the WFEO-WiE

• The scope
• Engineers, engineering, women in the engineering,
  
• Place of the engineer women in organisations
• Science and engineering thrive on diversity !
• Out of the scope
• The non specific engineer concerns for women
  (corruption, violence, )

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To succeed

• Your active sponsorship and support
• Your willingness to promote the WiE S.C.
• Your ability to identify in your organisation the
  right competencies to be integrated in the WiE
  S.C.
• Our inclusive and collaborative mode
• to represent the diversity of the WFEO members
• Our capabilities to work with the other WFEO
  standing committees

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Timeframe

• April 2008 call for volunteers (members and
  correspondents) with skills within WFEO members
  and partners, via the WFEO VP and President of
  each organisation
• 15 april-30 may preparing the kick off,
  designing a flyer to promote the new STC to
  partners and getting audience, volonteers,... Not
  sophisticated flyer, on website,...
• june receiving the feedback from the
  volunteers, selecting the actors, preparing the
  timing and planning for July event and planning
  and procedures for next meeting next quarter
• July 2008 at the next www.icwes14.org, to be
  held in France, under the support of CNISF and
  its strategic partners
• Launch officially the WFEO-WiE
• Prepare the next regional conference of Women
  engineers for 2009
• Meet with the strategic international partners
• Draft a strategic action plan
• Sept 2008 executive summary with the WiE
  strategic plan on the WFEO web site
  www.wfeo.org/wie
• Sept-Dec 2008 in a concise online catalogue,
  gather all best practices in promoting the gender
  issues in engineering
• Women in engineering
• Women engineers networking and leadership
• Women engineers entrepreneurs
• Involvement in the WEC Forum on Women in
  December 2008