Magnificent Women in Engineering
This website is dedicated to the magnificent women in engineering from the past 100 years.
It draws together stories of our inspirational and pioneering women from engineering history, and compiles a resource that can be used by anybody wanting to learn more about the history of our women engineers.
It draws together stories of our inspirational and pioneering women from engineering history, and compiles a resource that can be used by anybody wanting to learn more about the history of our women engineers.
Magnificent Women Engineers
Amy Johnson, Tilly Shilling, Hertha Ayrton, Rachel Parsons, Caroline Haslett and many more. Find out more about the pioneering women engineers of our past through the resource sheets and links here.
50 Women in Engineering
In 2016 the Women's Engineering Society first published the inaugural list of Top 50 women in engineering, and since then 50 more have been released every year. Find out who they are here.
50 Women in Engineering Slideshow (2016)
Outreach Activity
Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines is a fun and educational outreach activity and resource for schools and other organisations to explore the role of women in engineering, both now and in the past. It was developed by the Women's Engineering Society in 2014 and has been delivered to thousands of children since that time. It is now being delivered by the EDT, the Engineering Development Trust.
It is based on the work that women did during the First World War in engineering and technical professions, and includes a look back at the history of women in engineering and their role as engineers today. Secret Spitfires
Secret Spitfires is the story of hundreds of women, girls and a handful of men who built Spitfires in secret during WW2. Released on 1 July 2018 to coincide with RAF100 Day, this is the true story of ordinary people doing extraordinary acts. Read the story here.
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Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines
This new book by Henrietta Heald, published by Unbound, will be available in late 2018.
Order your copy in advance, and keep up to date with the progress of the book through the blogs published here. Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines explores one of the fascinating untold dramas of the 20th century – the true story of Britain’s early women engineers and their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution, as well as their achievements in science and technology. Many of these trailblazers have disappeared from history, but Magnificent Women will bring them back to life. The drama centres on a group of remarkable individuals who in 1919 came together to create the Women’s Engineering Society. Their leaders were Katharine and Rachel Parsons, wife and daughter of the engineering genius Charles Parsons, and Caroline Haslett, a self-taught electrical engineer who campaigned to free women from domestic drudgery and became the most powerful professional woman of her age. These three protagonists and the other main players encountered hardships and joys during the First World War that shaped their intellectual and political views. Their intertwined stories and sometimes tempestuous relationships form the core of the book, but it includes an array of other colourful characters. Drawn from across the social spectrum, the cast includes Eleanor Shelley-Rolls, sister of car magnate Charles Rolls; Viscountess Rhondda, a director of 33 companies who founded and edited the revolutionary Time and Tide magazine; and Laura Willson, a suffragette and labour rights activist from Halifax, who was twice imprisoned for her political activities. This is not just the story of the women themselves, but also of the era in which they lived. Beginning at the moment when women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time, and to stand for Parliament – and when several professions were opened up to them – Magnificent Women charts the changing attitudes towards women in society and in the workplace, and towards engineers in particular. In a penetrating final chapter that looks at the present and the future, it identifies what’s changed and what hasn’t, and sets out to inspire a new generation of female engineers to take up the challenge. Elegantly written by acclaimed biographer Henrietta Heald, and beautifully illustrated with black-and-white archive photographs, Magnificent Women makes a fitting centenary tribute to a group of extraordinary female pioneers. Women's Trails at Museums
Women's trails at science and technology museums are a way of inspiring the next generation of young women through the stories of the past. As part of International Women in Engineering Day 2018, a number of museums rose to the challenge of producing Women's trails. See more here.
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Pinterest Women in Engineering History
Check out the many images of women in engineering history on the pinterest site here.
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