Five successful women Engineers

8th of March marks the International Woman’s Day to celebrate the woman who has achieved great heights all over the world. Here we have five successful woman engineers that made the country proud.

 

Priya Balasubramaniam, Vice President of iPhone operations, Apple

Serving as the Vice President of iPhone operations, Priya Balasubramaniam started her journey with Apple since the year 2001. The lady then made great success in the International supply chain team. She has played a prominent role to expand Apple product manufacturing.

 

 

Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Engineering, Twitter

Nandini Ramani plays a significant role as the Vice President of Engineering in the organization. She is also a major contributor to Twitter’s product strategy to promote the marketing activities, particularly, in India.

 

Anjali Joshi, Vice President of Product Management, Google

Anjali Joshi has been working with Google for ten years. She is well known for her versatility and her capability to handle any situation in the organization. She also has worked for Google’s cloud, and infrastructure along with news and finance departments.

 

Komal Mangtani, Head of Data Intelligence, Uber

Komal, before joining Uber has been working as the head of engineering at Box. At present, the lady is working as the head of engineering at Uber. Her team works to help Uber explore more market opportunities and analyze the overall business performance.

 

 

 

Aparna Ramani, Director of Engineering, Facebook

Aparna Ramani is currently working with Facebook as the Director of Engineering. She leads a team of professionals that deals with and processes real-time data and analysis. The team is a significant player in technology for Facebook’s Newsfeed.

Support Women Engineers – The World Needs Them!

Women with the desire, skills, and ability can enter and succeed in any stream or profession that she wishes. However, it is depressing to find that most of the women after attaining their qualification in technology and science make a U-turn, not to return. Recently, many organizations all around the world have launched campaigns and taken initiatives to increase the women in the engineering field. The world needs women with higher capabilities and problem-solving skills. Here, are the ways to encourage and attract women towards the engineering field:

Promoting Girls towards the Sector in Early Age

Several organizations are into the practice of promoting girls in the sector by encouraging them to choose right subjects. They are also dedicated to inform and explain the rewarding opportunities available to women in the sector. There are organizations who invite a huge number of female graduates and provide them with essential training and remarkable career options.

Creation of Flexible Work Culture

Women are usually surrounded by family responsibilities to look after. So, it is significant to ascertain flexible working environment which will act as a key to attract women in the engineering sector. Since we have technology that works beyond the geographical boundaries and people work to meet the need of employers sitting in any part of the world. Thus, it is possible to offer women with flexible work culture to give a boost in their career options and involve women in the very important sector.

Arrival of More Engineering Campaigns

It is also possible to encourage women towards the sector through targeted campaigns such as The Institute of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) award namely, Young Woman of the Year in the UK where women are rewarded as the supporting partners. Involvement of such popular campaigns will increase women interest and action towards Engineering. In addition, business and schools can collaborate and work towards raising women awareness in engineering.

Eradication of Discrimination and Biased Behaviour

Recruiting of women would easily take place if they were present on selection panels. Elaborately, women usually do not appear for job selection or are not present to get shortlisted. All form of prejudiced thinking should abandon to make sure no discrimination takes place and women are able to make their way to better opportunities.
There is much of work involved in guiding girls and explaining them career-enhancing jobs in the field of engineering. Therefore, the complete engineering field must be widened and should direct the jobs to them so that, female population is present in the suitable number at all the levels.