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Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in STEM Inspiring the next generation of women in STEM We’re passionate about inclusion and development. We’re also passionate about bringing the next generation of young females in to STEM. Join us and we’ll give you all the support you need to kickstart the career of a lifetime. Be part of our story. #ExperienceCGI WOMEN IN STEM | 2 Every team member is a stakeholder When you join our team you become a member of the company, not just an employee. That’s not all that sets us apart, we work on projects that transform lives, every day. So if you’ve ever considered a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), consider this: our supportive team, meaningful work and empowering environment can make it happen and take you on the journey of a lifetime. CGI-GROUP.CO.UK | 3 Our mission We are an established and growing company that offers the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting technology projects – so this is the place to build your future. We’re passionate about diversity, inclusion and development, so we’re particularly keen to help ambitious and capable women launch fast-moving STEM careers. Recent research found 78% of students couldn’t In this brochure we will share the stories of just name a famous female working in tech¹. In previous some of these female pioneers. We hope their years, similar research found around 60% of young careers and achievements will help you bring women said they could only identify Marie Curie as your own dreams to life. We believe your ideas an inspiring female role model in STEM². However, have the power to transform – so get inspired and there have been countless women whose discoveries see how we can help you and the next generation have shaped the technology we know today. of women in STEM to revolutionise the industry. ¹ https://www.pwc.co.uk/women-in-technology/women-in-tech-report.pdf ² https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/10735201/Lack-of-female- role-models-highlighted-as-one-in-10-name-man-when-asked-for- famous-women-engineer-or-scientist.html WOMEN IN STEM | 4 How many women work in STEM? Throughout history women have been under-represented in STEM. Since the mid- twentieth century more women have taken up STEM careers, but as the charts below make clear, the figures are still too low. We think this isn’t good enough. We want you to join us in transforming STEM and the wider world. 35.2% 11.1% 7.9% 17.1% 10.7% OF CHEMISTS OF PHYSICISTS AND OF MECHANICAL OF ELECTRICAL/COMPUTER OF INDUSTRIAL ASTRONOMERS ENGINEERS HARDWARE ENGINEERS ENGINEERS MEN WOMEN Statistics from Cassie Phillips, Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Fields, https://girlsintech.org/blog/2017/03/17/closing-the-gender-gap-in-stem-fields/, March 2017 Bringing the next generation of women in to STEM The good news is that the number of women applying for STEM courses and careers is Hypatia, C360-415 increasing rapidly. You’ll be following in some Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Advisor and Teacher impressive footsteps. Throughout history A pioneering philosophy and astronomy women have made leaps and bounds within teacher in Egypt, who guided students STEM. Here are just a few of the women whose from all over the planet. She also constructed astrolabes and hydrometers contributions shaped the world we know today. – tools that are still used today. Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717 Émilie du Châtelet, 1706-1749 Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, Physicist and Author One of the first naturalists to observe insects closely and record them via illustration. She After studying astronomy, she translated published two books containing over 50 and commented upon Isaac Newton’s images each documenting metamorphism in Principia. Published after her death 186 insects, including the discovery in 1759, this remains the standard French of many new facts. translation. A main-belt planet and crater on Venus have been named in her honour. CGI-GROUP.CO.UK | 5 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 1718-1799 Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831 Philosopher and Mathematician Mathematician, Physicist and Philosopher The first woman to write a mathematics Recognised as a pioneer of number theory and handbook, Analytical Institutions for the elasticity theory, she became the first woman Use of Italian Youth, and the first woman to win the grand prize from the Paris Academy appointed as a maths professor by a of Sciences. university. In 1996, crater 16765 and the Agnesi crater on Venus were named after her. Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852 Maria Mitchell, 1818-1889 Mathematician and Computer Programmer Astronomer Daughter of Lord Byron, Lovelace created the At the age of 12, she helped her father calculate first algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical the timings of a solar eclipse, and went on Engine – effectively the world’s first computer. to a future calculating sunspots. In 1847, As such, she is recognised as the mother of she discovered what is now known as Miss programming. Mitchell’s Comet and became the first woman to be elected in to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919 Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911 Surgeon Industrial and Safety Engineer Fascinated by her father’s medical The first woman to gain a chemistry degree textbooks, Walker worked as a teacher to in the USA, she became Instructor in Sanitary pay for medical college. She volunteered Chemistry at MIT Lab, where she was a pioneer as a surgeon during the American Civil War in sanitary engineering and domestic science. and became the only woman to receive the She is recognised as the founder of home Medal of Honour. economics and the first person to recognise the link between chemistry and nutrition. Sophie Kovalvskaya, 1850-1891 Hertha Ayrton, 1854-1923 Mathematician Engineer Since women could not attend university in After studying mathematics at university, Russia, Kovalvskaya learned mathematics she became a teacher to fund her and physics in Germany. She contributed research, much of which was published significantly to research in partial differential in Mathematical Questions and Their equations and mechanics, and was Solutions. In 1902, she published The the first woman to gain a doctorate in Electric Arc, for which she was awarded mathematics. the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society. Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1941 Marie Curie, 1867-1934 Astronomer Physicist Working closely with Edward C Pickering The most recognised female scientist, at Radcliffe College, she catalogued the she was the first woman to win a Nobel development of contemporary stellar Prize, the only person to win twice, and the classifications. Along with Pickering, she only person to win in two categories. Her is credited with the creation of the Harvard research on X-rays and radioactivity shaped Classification Scheme, and by the end of the entire discipline today, but also led to her career had classified a record breaking her death due to radiation exposure. 350,000 stars. Mileva Marić, 1875-1948 Lillian Gilbreth, 1878-1972 Mathematician Industrial Engineer and Psychologist She was in the same class as Albert Einstein Working as an engineer and gaining a PhD at Zurich Polytechnic, and went on to in psychology, she applied her unique marry him, but they divorced in 1919. She combination of expertise to pioneer industrial is believed to have assisted extensively and organisational psychology. Her studies with his research, but the full extent of her focused on time, motion and fatigue, domestic contributions has never come to light. management and home economics. Her activities (and thirteen children) inspired the film Cheaper by the Dozen. WOMEN IN STEM | 6 Jeanne Villepreux-Power, 1794-1871 Mary Anning, 1799-1847 Marine Biologist Palaeontologist After a glittering career as a dressmaker, she Anning grew up selling fossils along with developed a passion for natural history and her family, and in 1812 discovered the first particularly marine observation. She was the first ichthyosaur. She also discovered a five- female member of the Catania Accademia Gioenia metre plesiosaur in 1820 and a pterosaur and is credited with developing sustainable in 1828, among many other fossils. In 2010 aquaculture principles. the Royal Society added her to its list of British women who influenced the history of science. Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821-1910 Nurse Physician Considered the founder of modern nursing Inspired to study medicine after caring through her work in the Crimean War, for a family friend, Blackwell was rejected Nightingale paved the way for modern from numerous medical schools due to her hospital cleanliness. The statistics she gender. Eventually accepted by Geneva produced to support her recommendations Medical College, she became the first shaped the curriculum for today’s nurses. woman to gain a medical degree in the USA and went on to found the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Mary Putnam Jacobi, 1842-1906 Emily Roebling, 1843-1903 Physician Engineer The first woman to graduate from an American Married to civil engineer Washington school of pharmacy, she went on to become Roebling, she played a central part in the a doctor at the Female Medical College of construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Gaining Pennsylvania. She then became the first extensive engineering knowledge, she woman to study medicine at the University of dealt with politicians, builders and other Paris before founding the Women’s Medical stakeholders. The bridge was successfully Association of New York City. opened in 1883. Nettie Stevens, 1861-1912 Florence Bascom, 1862-1945 Geneticist Geologist After completing her four-year university The first woman to receive a PhD from course in two, she researched Johns Hopkins University, she researched multicellular organisms and reproductive acidic volcanoes and cycles cells, leading to the discovery of the X of erosion.
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