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Continue reading →: Self care as a female engineer
I was part of an off site meeting on Monday as part of a team building exercise. The issue of “self-care” came up and some of the commentary about it surprised me a bit. So, I thought I’d write about self-care as a female engineer for a bit. What is…
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Continue reading →: Building Professional Confidence: Practical Tips for Women in Engineering
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem with excellent women in engineering. I got some great feedback, but one primary bit of feedback I got was from women in engineering who’s confidence has been completely shot. Some of this is by the constant challenging of their credentials and…
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Continue reading →: Man v Bear
I don’t know if you’ve been following the various comments on social media in the last few weeks about an apparently simple question posed to some women. “If you had the choice between meeting a strange man or a bear in the woods, what would you choose?” It didn’t surprise…
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Continue reading →: What does “forging new paths” mean?
When I chose “forging new paths” as the tag line for EngineerHer, I thought long and hard about it. It wasn’t just an off-the-cuff thing. In fact, an earlier rendition had “survival to thrival” as the tagline, but it just didn’t work from a practical point of view… So, what…
