Vision

Attract a diverse future generation;

Champion the reduction of the gender digital divide;
Work with partners, provide guidance on creating and maintaining inclusive cultures;
Create opportunities for employers to drive strategy;
Extend the focus of our diversity and inclusion activity beyond gender to other underrepresented groups and recognize the impact of intersectionality;
Engage engineering PEIs in using the case studies to build a culture of inclusion across the engineering profession;
Use our membership to identify innovative policies, programs, measures and conditions needed to attain gender balance, eliminate violence and promote inclusive representation in engineering.
WiE believes that there is a global problem with equitable or fair representation of people of different genders in engineering and that the only by the realization of a truly inclusive and diverse engineering sector, can the world enjoy the creativity and innovation that comes from different lenses and perspectives, and subsequently achieve sustainable economies that work for all and leave no-one behind.

To achieve this, WIE will work to:

Support, reinforce and participate in existing National or International programs to promote workforce diversity and amplification of the aim of capacity-building.
Use social media presence to support and promote global conversations around gender diversity in engineering, using the #WFEOWomen hashtag.
Aim for visible presence globally of the work of WIE at International Conferences.
Develop resources to showcase the work of WIE, such as banners, flyers, PowerPoint presentations to be used by our members.
Work with WFEO to ensure that members understand the actions that are expected of them to promote gender diversity and inclusion in engineering.
Promote and celebrate national awareness days including World Engineering Day, International Women’s Day, International Women in Engineering Day, and International Day of the Girl and amplify the profiles of our members and national members in celebrating these days.
Use metrics and member feedback to identify countries where capacity building and outreach activities are most required, and those which are making good progress.
Theme 1 Leads: IR Prof. Dr. LEONG Wai Yie (Malaysia), Eng. Sharon Mabengwa Musonda (Zambia).

Theme 2: Engineering Workforce Capacity building- to encourage female engineering retention and leadership

In engineering, and in many other traditionally male dominated sectors, there is a dearth of women in leadership positions. This not only discourages the career aspirations of other women, it also suppresses the voices of women and denies their opinions and limits their ability to contribute to important decisions concerning the world they share with men. The WIE committee will encourage women to aspire and to succeed in leadership positions, both within the WFEO, and in the engineering sector, more widely. Female engineers will be encouraged to break the power glass ceiling.

WIE will work with its National Members to deliver capacity building and growth activities for young women in countries where our input has been identified as being impactful and where these initiatives are currently missing, and it will work with other WFEO Standing committees to take advantage of capacity-building and education opportunities to address this challenge.

To achieve this, WIE will:

Promote and support our members and their activities to enable them to reach leadership positions, through visibility of their work and their global activities.
Encourage and celebrate leading and rising female engineers, all over the world.
Create rich resource of global women in engineering contacts to be used for partnership opportunities for engineering activities.
Encourage and collaborate with female entrepreneurs and female led start-ups.
Work with UNESCO to deliver the recommendations of the 2021 UNESCO Engineering Report.
Encourage building inclusive cultures in the existing workplace and in the Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs).
Engage in, encourage and promote activities that retain and mentors the next generation of female engineers and leaders.
Theme 2 Leads: Eng. Jitu Kebede Guta (Ethiopia), Man Chit Jovian Cheung (Hong Kong, SAR of China).