Today marks International Women in Engineering Day. INWED gives women engineers around the world a profile when they are still hugely under-represented in their professions. As the only platform of its kind, it plays a vital role in encouraging more young women and girls to take up engineering careers.

At Carnell, we are recognising International Women in Engineering day by celebrating all of our women engineers, and are shining the spotlight on Kellyn. Kellyn is a Quantity Surveyor and tells us all about her engineering journey in the interview below.

International Women in Engineering Day, is brought to you by Women’s Engineering Society (WES) will celebrate its 9th year in 2022 and figures as of June 2021 show that 16.5% of engineers are women. INWED gives women engineers around the world a profile when they are still hugely under-represented in their professions. As the only platform of its kind, it plays a vital role in encouraging more young women and girls to take up engineering careers.

“This year we’ll be celebrating the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing to support lives and livelihoods every day. We’re profiling the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, the inventors and innovators who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build towards a brighter future.”

In 2021, INWED’s Twitter campaign recorded a potential impact of 103 million, with the official INWED hashtag trending at number one in the UK on the day! The INWED website was viewed 56,000 times during the month of June, with hundreds of events registered and reports of many more. INWED events took place in countries such as Panama, Canada, Rwanda, Hong Kong, Sierra Leone, Australia and New Zealand (to name a few!).

For more information and resources about INWED, go to: https://www.inwed.org.uk/