This year’s women in engineering awards showcase the diverse range of skills and talent displayed by female engineers – from building suspension bridges and overseeing multimillion-pound technology projects to setting up the Girls with Drills campaign, a movement that supports and promotes females in the engineering industry. The awards are sponsored by Ball Corporation, a leading supplier of aluminium cans, the world’s most recycled drinks containers.
Women now make up 16.5% of all engineers. The number of women working in engineering occupations has risen from 721,586 in 2016 to 936,000 in 2021, according to a report by Engineering UK, which was published in March 2022.
