The Women in Engineering National Committee (WIE NC), working with large engineering employers, have developed a solutions based approach focusing on delivering better business outcomes to enable industry to evolve and successfully compete in a changing environment.

Many of our members work in organisations that have had singular success in recruiting, retaining and celebrating female engineers in their workforce.

As a response to numerous approaches from industry to provide advice and guidance on how to set up a successful in-house professional women’s program, the WIE NC undertook a project to develop an industry blueprint of successful in-house professional women’s programs.

A paper was developed following a round table discussion with industry partners, that have programs that successfully encourage gender diversity in an organisation through initiatives that attract, retain and celebrate women in the engineering profession.