Keeping women in the engineering loop

I was recently interviewed by Apple Rubber for a blog post about the need for more women in manufacturing and it got me thinking of my own little girls and their engineering-like minds.

I think all children are creative, imaginative and love to build things, whether they are with blocks or building a beach out of blankets on our living room floor. But knowing the stories and worlds I fabricated in my own childhood and seeing my girls replicate that imagination, I see a huge spark of creativity that should be tapped into now for the future—and hopefully maintained through life.

我去了事物的讲故事方面，成为一名记者，但在我看来，科学和工程需要创造力。如果您并不总是在日常生活的正常领域外面看，您如何创造和设计新的组件，机器和系统？

This is not to say men are not creative or imaginative. I think most people are. But having different perspectives in the design process is a good thing, from men and women, young and old, experienced and inexperienced.

当我访问技术会议和贸易展，它令人惊讶于少数女性。许多那些参加的人往往是营销和销售，而不是工程师。这可能部分原因是追求工程领域的较少的事实，但我确实相信其中一些可能是职业道路变化的结果。

I know many women who have left the workforce to raise their families and once the youngest children were old enough to be in school, have struggled to regain employment in their fields. It’s difficult to get back to work in all fields, but in engineering and technical jobs, where things may have drastically changed in five or 10 years, I can imagine it’s a daunting task.

这就是为什么我很乐意了解妇女工程师协会和Irelaunch社会的新倡议，旨在增加茎部门的技术女性数量。称为Step重新入境工作队，它将为具有技术度的女性提供实习。工作队的目标是通过包括从职业生涯休息的妇女增加女性茎部门天主的管道。它还旨在通过作为一种用于接触返回技术女性的车辆来产生杆部门的结构变化。

Seven founding members from SWE’s Corporate Partnership Council form the Task Force, with each committing to pilot a re-entry internship program throughout 2016. The founding members include Booz Allen Hamilton, Caterpillar Inc., Cummins Inc., General Motors Company, IBM, Intel Cor. and Johnson Controls.

来自每次试点计划的参与者将在2016年10月的SWE年度大会的特别会议中得到推出，他们将讨论他们的回归工作经验。我们在WE16预计约有9,000名与会者。

“支持所有职业阶段的女性与我们在SWE的使命方面对齐。我们欢迎与Irelaunch的合作关系，使妇女回到阀杆工作世界的倡议中，在这种情况下，需要性别多样性。我们还期待着对作为工作队的妇女创造的新机遇和关系，“SWE执行董事兼首席执行官Karen Horting表示，这是巨大的。

重新进入实习是作为雇主重新将专业人员重新融入劳动力的特殊类别的进步行动，以及对个人的强大回归战略。这些课程为返回专业人士的就业人士创造了正式途径。他们让雇主有机会在他们的育儿，老人护理或其他职业突破责任减少或结束时，员工在一瞬间连接高口径返回专业人员，候选人准备完全重新参与劳动力。该计划还使雇主能够在其排名中增加进入高级女性的中期妇女的数量。

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