INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY & FEMMEGINEERING
It’s International Women’s Day!
Femmegineering was created as an initiative to make a technical education a natural choice for girls and create a more equal industry. Studies show that there is a general interest in technology among children, but among girls that number drops drastically as they get older.
We don’t have the answer to why this happens, but we believe that positive representation can assist in reducing stereotypes of underrepresented groups. Through Femmegineering, we highlight female role models, discover what an engineer does, and what enormous, exciting, and varied career opportunities an engineering education entails. With representation and the correct information, we hope that the interest in technology will remain among young girls.
In the first years of the initiative, we hosted multiple events in Sweden. The plan is to go global and host events and visit schools in every city we operate.
This year on International Women’s Day we take a look back in time by highlighting two engineers that shaped history!
Radia Perlman
Radia invented the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which earned her the nickname The Mother of The Internet. STP was instrumental in making today’s internet possible. Her work greatly impacted how data moves and put the basic rules of internet traffic in place.
Margaret Hamilton
Margret was the director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She led the NASA software team that landed astronauts on the moon.
Femmegineering is part of our CSR activities, if you want to read more about what we do to create positive change in socierty visit our CSR page.