Championing change
Romilly Madew AO FTSE HonFIEAust EngExec
CEO at Engineers Australia
At Engineers Australia, we are focused on advancing and increasing the numbers of diverse women into leadership and building a respectful and inclusive workplace for all employees. ?
Engineers Australia is an active Member of the Champions of Change Coalition and I am proud to have a seat at the Coalition’s STEM group table.
An integral part of Membership of the Coalition is the commitment to transparency and accountability, and in 2022 Engineers Australia has shared our actions and progress on gender equality initiatives and measures for inclusion in the Champions of Change Coalition 2022 Impact Report released today.
?The Champions of Change Coalition 2022 Impact Report aggregates the progress on gender equality, advancing more and diverse women into leadership and building respectful and inclusive working environments for all employees, across more than 190 reporting Members’ organisations, as well as the STEM group.?
Engineers Australia continued to experience the benefits of targeted initiatives to minimise bias in recruitment and promotion. It achieved an increase in the proportion of women manager promotions, up from 57% in 2021 to 64% in 2022
In the last twelve months we launched two major pieces of research. The Engineers Australia Barriers to Employment for Migrant Engineers Report, which revealed that overseas-born women engineers have almost three times the unemployment rate of Australian-born women engineers.
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The report sets out a series of practical steps industry can take to increase employment of migrant engineers, including improved mentoring, development and support, knowledge sharing, English language improvement and more active steps to identify and access the migrant talent pool, including women.
Engineers Australia also published the Women in Engineering report to identify key barriers and enablers associated with women accounting for only16% of Australian engineering graduates and just 13% of Australia’s engineering workforce, despite engineering being the largest employer of the STEM professions.
The report recommends actions to address the lack of familiarity and positive perceptions women associate with engineering, and support girls to engage more in STEM subjects at school. It describes ways to overcome persistent and harmful workplace culture and unequal opportunities in engineering workplaces, including non-inclusive cultures, unequal opportunities, poor work–life balance and a lack of female role models.
I invite you to read more about the Champions of Change Coalition and the actions and progress being made to accelerate progress on gender equality.
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