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Identifying avenues for increasing female participation in engineering, by understanding the motivators and barriers around entry and progression. 

Engineering should be as diverse as the people it serves. For all Australian workplaces, diversity is good for culture and outcomes. Businesses thrive with a mix of ideas and views from people with different backgrounds and experiences. This paper explores actions for change. 

Engineers Australia presents recommendations concerning the 2022 Federal Budget, focused on building sovereign capability, beating climate change and investing in people.

Overseas-born engineers make up over 58 per cent of Australia’s engineering workforce but are significantly more likely than their Australian-born counterparts to be unemployed. To find out why and identify how to overcome the barriers to employment these engineers face, Engineers Australia commissioned research to identify potential barriers to employment.

In this submission, Engineers Australia demonstrates that demand for engineers in Australia will always outstrip supply from domestic entry level graduates. A skilled migration program will, therefore, always be needed.

Despite considerable effort, there is still much to be done to improve girls’ participation in STEM education and careers. The Engineering for Australia Taskforce has appreciated the need to act based on four issues they have identified. This paper reviews the international research literature that not only focuses on barriers to girls’ participation in engineering, but more importantly focuses on the value of interventions to improve diverse participation in engineering.

Shape the future by solving problems – learn where engineering could take you.

Use this poster when teaching high school students about how they can help shape the future with a career in STEM.

This simplified presentation will help you teach high school students about how they can help shape the future with a career in STEM.

Use this detailed presentation to help you teach high school students about how they can help shape the future with a career in STEM.

Use these simplified presentation notes with the simplified version of the presentation when you present to high school students about the benefits of a career in STEM.

This detailed presentation will help you teach primary school students about engineering and a career in STEM.

Use these simplified presentation notes with the simplified presentation when you present to primary school students about engineering and STEM.

The purpose of this project was to investigate, identify and assess the barriers confronting women in engineering in order to find ways to redress the underrepresentation of women in the profession. This was completed as a partnership with Engineers Australia and Monash University as part of the Monash Industry Team Initiative (MITI) project.

This brochure outlines various case studies demonstrating successful work-life balance, strategies for creating effective workplaces by implementing worklife balance opportunities, and a check list for organisations and individuals for before, during and after changes in working arrangements.

The aim of this blueprint is to increase industry awareness of gender bias and to provide industry with strategies to mitigate organisational bias, such that no employees suffer undue bias due to gender.

A report on a survey of Engineers Australia members undertaken in 2012.