Women engineers in the last century had two problems: first, the struggle to gain training, jobs and acceptance and second, how to use engineering to lighten women's domestic burden.
We tell the two threads of this story in this online exhibition using material from the Women's Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) collections held in the IET Archives.
Women engineers visiting a factory c1930s, IET Archives ref NAEST 92/07/01/14
Continue the story
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Go to History of WES History of WES -
Go to The Woman Engineer journal The Woman Engineer journal -
Go to EAW - history and policy EAW - history and policy -
Go to EAW - educating women EAW - educating women -
Go to EAW Centenary EAW Centenary -
Go to Caroline Haslett and WES Caroline Haslett and WES -
Go to WES - WW2 and beyond WES - WW2 and beyond -
Go to IET Young Woman Engineer Awards IET Young Woman Engineer Awards
Other resources of interest:
- The Woman Engineer Journal - complete digitised volumes 1919 - 2014
- Caroline Haslett biography
- What was a girl to do? Article on Rachel Parsons, founder of WES, by Henrietta Heald
- WES Centenary Trail Map - click on pins on the map to find out about historical women engineers