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Women in
Engineering
a History of Firsts
The role of women in engineering shouldn’t
be a secret, as without their vital contributions
the industry wouldn’t have achieved what it
has today. With countless contributions to
celebrate, we’ve marked just a few as we
take a step back in time to look at a
history of firsts…
Kate Gleason is the 1st
woman elected to full
membership of ASME
1914
1906
1905
1843
Edith Clarke earns a Masters in
Electrical Engineering at MIT – the first
woman to do so
1919
Alice Perry becomes the
first female Engineering
graduate in Ireland or
Great Britain
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
becomes the first female
member of ASCE
1883
Lillian Gilbreth becomes
the first female Professor at
the School of Engineering,
Purdue University
The first woman marine
engineer in Britain, Victoria
Drummond, is awarded an
MBE for bravery at sea in WWII
Ada Lovelace publishes work which
will later see her recognized as the
first computer programmer
1986
Emily Roebling crosses the Brooklyn
Bridge after supervising its construction
1983
1974
Nancy D. Fitzroy becomes the
first female President of ASME
1993
1997
1
2
Martha Sloane
becomes the first
female IEEE President
Mary Fergusson is elected
first female fellow of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
1941
1957
1959
Mandakini Majumdar
(Deshpande) is the first
woman hired in Engineering
at IIT, Kharagpur, India
Sally Ride is the first person to
use a robotic arm in space to
retrieve a satellite
1935
Lois Graham becomes
the first American
woman to earn PhD in
Mechanical Engineering
The proportion of engineers in industry
who are women however is still very
low in the UK at only 9% – the lowest
percentage in Europe.1
Likewise, in the USA, as little as
14% of the country’s engineering
workforce are women.2
Pam Liversidge is chosen
as the first woman
president of the Institution
of Mechanical Engineers
2003
2004
2005
2014
Theresa Helmlinger
Ratcliff becomes the first
female president of NSPE
Patricia Galloway
becomes the first
female President
of ASCE
Facebook’s first female
engineer, Ruchi Sanghvi,
starts her new job
Dame Ann Dowling
becomes the first female
President of the Royal
Academy of Engineering
Women’s Engineering Society, 2016. Useful Statistics. [Online] Available at: www.wes.org.uk/statistics
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, 2012. STEM Education: Preparing for the Jobs of the Future. [Online] Available at: bit.ly/2eUQvlt
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bit.ly/womenengineering
2015
Naomi Climer is
elected as the first
female president of
the IET
