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
Other resources of interest:
- The Woman Engineer Journal - complete digitised volumes 1919 - 2014
- Caroline Haslett biography
- IET Women’s Network
- 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