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Happy International Women’s Day!!! Today marks the 101st Anniversary
for a globally celebrated event , celebrating the remarkable achievements women
before us have made. Also recognising the many contributions and precedents
women around the world are making.
This week has been great. I registered for the Global
Marathon 2012. Took part in IWD discussions at work. Its great to work for a company that recognizes International Women's Day a place that encourages more female leadership. Our GM, Pamela Maynard was also named finalist in the every woman in technology awards.
Global Marathon Video Intro
The Global Marathon is an interactive event that brings
women from around the world and focuses on different regions each day for 6 days
rather than 24 hours. This event brings women from different backgrounds to
share ideas and stories. A lot of great advice from many contributors and a
common theme that came up in a few of the discussions was emphasis on
communication skills. Specifically, how engineering (as well as others) courses need to incorporate
communication skills in the syllabus. No matter how greatly skilled you are in
your chosen engineering profession if you are not able to communicate your
ideas, influence people or lead people then you are limiting your chances in
moving up the ranks.
Also, “scarcity creates demand” and we can definitely use
this to our advantage. Areas that don’t feature a lot of women, if you love
a challenge and are brave enough to take one on then set yourself up with a
good support network to help you in your endeavours. Taking risk can be fun.
There are many network support groups, something that many women who have come before
us didn’t have and this is something we should make use of. We don’t have to
fear or do things on our on. The support is there, it’s only a matter of
reaching out.
As the event didn’t feature solely women in Engineering so I
would encourage you all (that includes the guys!) to watch the podcasts
available from the recent discussions on the Global Marathon site. Some great
stories and valuable advice shared there and inspiring ideas. Its also running until the 10th March so you can still register and take part in the discussions as well as watch some of the podcasts from previous discussions.
Happy IWD!
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Bee.
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