Voi Technology is proud to be the first micro-mobility operator to join Women in Transport, to make the transport sector a better industry through diversity, gender parity, and inclusion. According to data from the EU, only 22% of transport workers are women, and we want to encourage women to leave their mark on what continues to be a male-dominated field.
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Would you like to take part in our groundbreaking research to help us gain a better understanding of women working in the transport industry? Can you spare ten minutes to take part in our anonymous survey and share your experiences and perceptions? As part of our role as Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Women in Transport, we are researching women’s experiences and perceptions of working in the transport industry.
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Gill How - Leadership Development Consultant
2020 was certainly a challenging year for most of us. The arrival of the pandemic in March turned many a life upside down, often causing anxiety, stress and uncertainty around our work, relationships and health. It was a time, more than ever, when we needed to develop resilience. So, the generous offer from Gill How of a workshop on this topic to support our members was very welcome indeed.
Read MoreI’m currently reading our next book club read - How Women Rise. It’s a great read and talks about how focusing on things that lie within your control can help improve your situation and clear your path to success whereas focusing on external factors that aren’t in your control can be an exercise in frustration. On that note, we can’t change the pandemic but at Women in Transport we have taken some positive steps in 2020 to support our members and to ensure the future of our network.
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As we emerge from our second lockdown and face restrictions into the spring, Susan Heaton Wright's generous offer to support our Women in Transport community with a workshop on resilience and looking after ourselves in challenging times, was very timely and very welcome.
Read MoreWomen in Transport volunteer, Carmen Oleksinski, reviews the third session of the virtual book club. Hosted via Zoom in October, members came together to discuss their thoughts about ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama.
Read MoreCongratulations to Neil Pepper MBE who has just won The European Women In Construction & Engineering (WICE) Awards for Best Male Mentor 2020. We are also thrilled that Victoria Sutherland, a Women in Transport members from Mott MacDonald was awarded Best Woman Rail Engineer 2020.
Read MoreOn 3 November, Rachel Skinner, one of the founder members of Women in Transport and our Patron, became the 156th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and marked the start of her year with ICE's first ever fully-virtual Inaugural Address. Rachel spoke passionately about just one issue: Net-Zero Carbon and the need for civil engineers to act together, urgently, to help reduce carbon emissions and therefore address climate change.
Read MoreHigh Speed Two Ltd (HS2), in collaboration with Innovate UK, is investing £300,000 in a Small Business Research Initiative competition to deliver innovation that will drive project efficiencies and process optimisations during the design and construction phase of the new railway.
Read MoreWomen in Transport is delighted to be a signatory of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Charter’ which has just been launched jointly by The Railway Industry Association (RIA) and Women in Rail (WR) to champion equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK railway industry. The joint charter is a commitment to work together to build a more balanced higher performing sector and has been backed by over 100 organisations.
Read MoreOne of the primary objectives of Women in Transport is to shine a light on the wonderful range of career opportunities in the transport sector. Another is to inspire our members with role models who have succeeded in some of these careers and overcome the inevitable challenges along the way. So we were delighted when Rowan Joachim, Head of Engineering at London Overground, generously offered to speak to our members online about some key moments in her 20 year career in the transport industry.
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Since we launched the chat sessions back in April, we have covered a wide range of topics including the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the progress of ED & I, the role of male allies, how women can help each other advance their careers and whether remote working is the way forward. On 21 October members got together online to talk about Bullying in the workplace and how we can call it out.
Read MoreWednesday 21 October 2020 is International Pronouns Day. It seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns particularly affects transgender and gender nonconforming people.
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The need to put people first when implementing change was the key talking point when transformation and human factors experts at Highways England, WSP, Turner & Townsend and Women in Transport came together at a webinar hosted by WSP, on Tuesday 22nd September 2020.
Read MoreWith women significantly underrepresented in the transport workforce, there are often situations where we are the ‘alien in the room’. Even if this hasn’t been your personal experience, I hope that reading Charlie’s latest blog will provide some insight into how it feels to be the minority in a room and offers a moment of reflection on how we can all be more inclusive.
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Safe & the City is launching a new campaign to drive reporting of sexual harassment and raise funds for tools that will make it easier for charities and other organisations to act on reports.
The campaign - The Most Dangerous Word is ‘Just’ - centres on the fact that millions of incidents of harassment are minimised, not reported, as we tell ourselves, and others reinforce it, that it was ‘just’ a comment or ‘just’ a joke.
Read MoreWomen in Transport is delighted to announce the launch of the fourth year of Advance - a mentoring programme designed exclusively to support the professional development of our members. Advance offers structured mentoring for women working in transport. Launched in 2017, the programme has supported 160 mentees and mentors to date. Advance 2021 has been made possible with the generous support of TXM Recruit, Xanta Rail and Network for Skills.
Read MoreApplications for Advance 2021, the mentoring programme designed for women in transport, launch on 1 October 2020. In this blog, Women in Transport member, Charlie Barnes, shares her experience of being an Advance 2020 mentee and the benefits of getting a fresh perspective on challenges that you’re facing to advance your professional development.
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We've probably all become very familiar with working from home but are we working at our best? Are we being productive and efficient? Are we enjoying our day or are our stress levels going through the roof?
To find out how we can make working from home work better, we were delighted to get some guidance, in a fun interactive webinar led by Iain Smith, Women in Transport board member and founder of Network for Skills. Christine Hurley reports on the webinar.
Read MoreWomen in Transport volunteer, Carmen Oleksinski, reviews the second session of the virtual book club. Hosted via Zoom in July, members came together to discuss their thoughts about ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood.
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