{"id":93040,"date":"2018-06-20T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8305a2c950a394a02aa079bc25562b06"},"modified":"2018-06-20T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:59:39","slug":"news-story-raising-the-bar-for-women-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93040","title":{"rendered":"News story: Raising the bar for women in engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s campaign is \u2018Raising the Bar\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to have hundreds of female engineers at Sellafield and in the supply chain \u2013 working on a nationally important mission to reduce the UK\u2019s nuclear hazard<\/p>\n<p>We also have the highest female apprentice intake of any STEM employer in the UK \u2013 at 41%, so we\u2019re moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people will be proudly holding a \u2018selfie card\u2019 to show solidarity for equality, diversity and inclusion within the engineering profession.<\/p>\n<p>The new Women in Nuclear (WiN) Cumbria branch has been running the campaign, and has the support of Sellafield Ltd, local MPs and other businesses across the county.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of WiN Cumbria, Claire Gallery-Strong, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is such an historic year for gender issues, with the suffrage centenary, the gender pay gap debate and the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, there has never been a more relevant time for people to come together in solidarity for gender balance.<\/p>\n<p>This is not about one organisation or one individual, change can only happen as a collective effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The #INWED18 campaign is a great chance to showcase the inspirational role models we have, from female engineering apprentices to senior female engineering leaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign has been supported by MPs Sue Hayman andTrudy Harrison, aswell as employees from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Sellafield Ltd and other companies throughout Cumbria and Warrington..<\/p>\n<p>Members of Britain\u2019s Energy Coast Business Cluster (BECBC) were keen to get on board and arranged a photo opportunity at their most recent member meeting.<\/p>\n<p>BECBC Board Chairman, Ivan Baldwin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Inclusion is important to the Business Cluster and our members , on many levels, so we were keen to get involved with this campaign and to help in promoting Women in Engineering to our members too.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll continue to be an active ambassador for equality and diversity in the region whether that\u2019s through the gender balance of our elected Board or the appointment  of a Shadow Board of younger people from our sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">To get involved you can print off your selfie cards at www.inwed.org.uk\/selfiecards and share them using the hashtag #INWED18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sellafield Ltd is supporting this years campaign for International Women in Engineering Day (23 June.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}