n e w s l e t t e r no 83 december 2007 Networks for Women Engineers Internationally This is the English PDF edition of the printed German dib newsletter no. 83, 4/2007, published in December 2007 (ISSN 1612-8281). Editors of this issue: Angelika Reinhard, Petra Mayerhofer dib – deutscher ingenieurinnenbund e.V. German Association of Women Engineers P.O.Box 110305 64218 Darmstadt Germany Phone / Fax +49 700 /342 38 342 [email protected] www.dibev.de Networks for Women Engineers Internationally – dib Newsletter 4/2007 i Table of Contents Preface................................................................................................................................. 1 Lobbies for Women Engineers in Europe and in Other Parts of the World................................... 3 WES – The Women's Engineering Society .......................................................................................... 6 SWE – Society of Women Engineers ................................................................................................. 8 WIE – Engineers Australia – Women in Engineering ......................................................................... 10 FI – Association Française des Femmes Ingénieurs........................................................................... 12 APWEN – Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria................................................... 14 dib – deutscher ingenieurinnenbund ............................................................................................... 16 Stichting NIMF – Netwerk voor Informaticae, Mathematicae en Fysicae ............................................. 19 WITS – Women in Technology and Science..................................................................................... 20 SVIN – Schweizerische Vereinigung der Ingenieurinnen .................................................................... 23 JWEF – Japan Women Engineers Forum......................................................................................... 24 WPESJ – The Woman Professional Engineers Society of Japan .......................................................... 25 KWSE – The Association of Korean Woman Scientists and Engineers................................................. 27 Ε.Δ.Ε.Μ. / EDEM – Ένωσης Διπλωματούχων Ελληνίδων Μηχανικών .......................................... 29 AMIT – Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas ............................................................. 30 BeWiSe – Belgian Women in Science ............................................................................................. 31 The Women’s Engineering Society – WES .............................................................................. 32 Australia Celebrates 2007 as Year of Women in Engineering: Creative/Diverse/Inspiring .......... 33 Case Study on the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology in Korea...................... 35 International Federations and Organisations for Women Engineers ......................................... 37 ICWES and the Establishment of INWES ................................................................................ 40 NEWS from INWES: November 2007 ................................................................................... 43 14th International Conference of Women Engineers & Scientists.............................................. 44 Empowering Women in Engineering and Technology ............................................................. 46 International Colloquium of WFEO....................................................................................... 46 INWES Regional Symposium on Women Scientists and Engineers in New EU Countries and Eastern Europe ............................................................................................................................... 48 Global Summit of Women 2007 – Berlin............................................................................... 51 The Situation of Women Engineers in International Comparison in Numbers ............................ 54 Networks for Women Engineers Internationally – dib Newsletter 4/2007 1 Preface In 2005 the deutscher ingenieurinnenbund dib1. In the end the newsletter topic was pre- (dib – German Association of Women Engi- pared “only“ by us as the other members of neers) decided to take part in the organisa- the working group had other commitments. tion of the 14th International Conference of However, we were supported by the others Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES14) when needed. in July 2008 in Lille, France. The French as- And not only by them! We asked our interna- sociation of women engineers FI had suc- tional contacts whether they would contribute cessfully bid to hold this conference. In Au- and/or whether they would answer the ques- gust 2005 at ICWES13 in Seoul, South Ko- tionnaire with respect to their association. rea, the European participants – among them And for each request we received a positive our board member at that time Efstratia answer and a contribution. Especially we Zafeiriou and I, Angelika – had discussed to want to thank here: organise the conference together. The dib board agreed in October 2005. Within dib a • Professor Monique Frize, president of IN- small internal working group was formed. WES, who contributed an article on the current situation of INWES, In April 2006 a project-kick-off-meeting took • Dr. Anna Szemik Hojniak, INWES director place in Paris at which both of us partici- for Eastern Europe, who provided us with pated. For me, Petra, it was the first contact a report on the regional INWES sympo- with women engineers from other countries. sium in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland, in July At dinner we spoke about our different asso- this year, ciations. How large they were, when they • Dr. Myung Hee Jung, INWES director for were created, how they functioned, what top- the Far East, for the questionnaire an- ics were seen as relevant, how high the swered for the association KWSE and for a membership fees were ... My curiosity was study on the development of women in awakened. When we discussed at the first science and technology in Korea, which is meeting of the dib-internal working group for described in this newsletter, ICWES14 what we specifically wanted to do, • Dr. Marlene Kanga, Chair of the National the idea of a dib newsletter about the confer- Committee for Women in Engineering – ence suggested itself. The intention was to Engineers Australia, for the information inform about and win the dib members for about the special interest group WIE of the conference. As a result of the discussions Engineers Australia and about “2007 at the Paris meeting we decided to call the Year of Women in Engineering“ of Engi- topic of the newsletter “Networks for Women neers Australia, which is presented in an Engineers Internationally“. At the General article in this newsletter, Assembly 2006 the working group applied • Ellen Wesselingh and Edda Neuteboom for the 4th newsletter of this year – something for the questionnaire answered for the as- new, as to our knowledge this is the first sociation NIMF, newsletter topic done by a working group of 1 Normally dib newsletter topics are prepared by regional groups of dib. 2 Networks for Women Engineers Internationally – dib Newsletter 4/2007 dib-internal working group ICWES14 from left to right: Michaela Claus-Lynker, Marianne von Rauch, Angelika Klein, Petra Mayerhofer, Angelika Reinhard • Pam Wain for the information about the The newsletter consists of four topics: association WES, 1. national associations of women engi- • Marianne Rodot for the questionnaire neers and their activities, answered for the association FI, 2. international networks for women engi- • Gail Mattson and Betty Shanahan for the neers, in particular INWES and ICWES, questionnaire answered for the associa- 3. international conferences for women tion SWE, and engineers, • Ryo Kimura for the questionnaire an- 4. the situation of women engineers in in- 2 swered for the association WPESJ . ternational comparison in numbers. In addition we thank our colleagues on the We hope that the result will find your interest. dib board Jülide Sünter for the report about The organisation of ICWES14 has progressed the Global Women Summit and Sylvia Kegel considerably up to now and should enter the for the translation (from Polish!) of the report “hot phase” now. For some weeks now pa- by Dr. Anna Szemik Hojniak. It is inspiring, pers can be submitted at the homepage how many contributions we received and how www.icwes14.org (up to 13 January). We readily our requests were answered. think that the dib members could make many interesting contributions. Use this opportunity 2 We received this questionnaire in December to contribute! after the newsletter was printed. The input from WPESJ is included in this English PDF version. Networks for Women Engineers Internationally – dib Newsletter 4/2007 3 We hope that many of you take this opportu- ing to travel to the second ICWES14-project nity to participate in an ICWES in Europe. meeting in Paris. We are looking forward to Presumably the ICWES14 conference fee will this weekend, to discuss the project and to be reduced significantly for dib members. We meet the other organisers and hope to con- will inform you! tinue thereafter with fresh momentum. We write this on 30 November. Tomorrow Further information in the next newsletter ... several members of the working group – Angelika Reinhard, Petra Mayerhofer Marianne von Rauch, Michaela