Women in Engineering - Enabling Automation
Welcome to Enabling Automation! The tenth and final episode of season 2 is "Women in Engineering". Join our season 2 host, Simon Drexler, as he discusses with special guests, Sarita Dankner and Barb Willoughby.
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Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
01:48 – Why are women underrepresented in engineering?
06:11 – What change has been happening?
08:55 – Employee Resource Groups
10:00 – Unconscious bias
14:19 – Belonging in the workplace
19:09 – What universities are doing to help diversify STEM
23:20 – Resources to better understand belonging
26:45 – Diversity improves innovation and automation
28:47 – Closing thoughts
31:29 – Closing
Diversity is extremely important to automation, to engineering and to science as a whole. Diversity helps people study things from new and different perspectives. It adds creativity, brings more innovation and better results. Industries focused on STEM are not diverse enough could benefit from focusing on ways to make them more diverse.
The focus on diversity and inclusion needs to start from a young age. Unconscious bias plays a role in the division of what girls are taught to focus on versus boys. But it is not just education where we need to see a change. Young kids need to see role models in these roles – they need to see what they want to be in order to become it.
A diverse team is going to innovate better than a non-diverse team. Research shows that a diverse team of problem solvers is going to outperform and innovate better than a non-diverse team. It allows companies to produce a product that supports a more diverse population.
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