{"id":1911,"date":"2018-06-23T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2018-06-20T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:50:23","slug":"international-women-in-engineering-day-inwed18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2018\/06\/23\/international-women-in-engineering-day-inwed18\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women in Engineering Day | #INWED18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years there has been a global push to engage more <strong>women and girls in science and engineering<\/strong> in order to reduce the gender imbalance within the STEM industries. However, more still needs to be done to <strong>encourage and support <\/strong>women as they enter a STEM career and to highlight the <strong>valuable contributions <\/strong>women make to the field.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate<strong> International Women in Engineering Day<\/strong>, we spoke to some of the wonderful engineers at Newcastle University to find out why they decided to pursue a career in engineering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1920 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Charlotte_Paterson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Charlotte_Paterson.jpg 565w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Charlotte_Paterson-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1921 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Daisy-Ronn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Daisy-Ronn.jpg 573w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Daisy-Ronn-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1922 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Stephanie_Glendinning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"939\" height=\"1042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Stephanie_Glendinning.jpg 577w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/Stephanie_Glendinning-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Inspired to pursue a career in Engineering? Find out more about our undergraduate Engineering degrees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/engineering\/undergraduate\/\">here<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1927 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/inwed18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1378\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/inwed18.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2018\/06\/inwed18-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1378px) 100vw, 1378px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years there has been a global push to engage more women and girls in science and engineering in order to reduce the gender imbalance within the STEM industries. However, more still needs to be done to encourage and support women as they enter a STEM career and to highlight the valuable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2018\/06\/23\/international-women-in-engineering-day-inwed18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Women in Engineering Day | #INWED18<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,128,330],"tags":[135,408,406,407,133,409,119],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-meet-the-scientists","tag-engineering","tag-international-women-in-engineering-day","tag-inwed","tag-inwed18","tag-newcastle-university","tag-women-in-engineering","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}