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Jennifer McNelly: It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
April 17, 2016

A key demographic could help close the skills gap in manufacturing: women. We need to do a better job of attracting and retaining this untapped resource.

 

U.S. manufacturers today face a tremendous challenge finding quality talent to stay competitive in the global economy. Over the next decade, nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs likely will need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled.
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Employing An Untapped Resource In Saudi Arabia: Women

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 22, 2016
Sara AbdulAziz al-Omran is climbing the corporate ladder in a country where many women used to stay home. She leaves her parents’ home early every morning to head to her job at the All-Women Business Process Services and IT Centre. In just two years, al-Omran has gone from trainee to team leader, with three other women working directly under her. “It’s good to feel independent and achieve something in your career,” al-Omran says.
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Dennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education

Dennis Deturck University Of Pennsylvania
Bruce Lenthall University Of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2014
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to successfully complete a loop-the-loop without leaving the track. They then do the experiment and analyze how accurate their predictions were.
 
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Jennifer McNelly: Women in Manufacturing — An Untapped Resource

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
September 18, 2014
Janae Owens, an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at GE, is an example of an exceptional leader. Exceptional, in part, because she overcame the odds of being a woman in manufacturing and becoming the go-to EHS Specialist with GE On-site Machining and Repairs. Because of her great work, Janae was honored as a STEP Award Honoree in 2014.
 
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Giving Women a Seat at the Economic Table

Jane Nelson Harvard Kennedy School
July 01, 2014
“A woman is economically empowered when she has both the ability to succeed and advance economically and the power to make and act on economic decisions.” — International Center for Research on Women, 2011.
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Four Steps to Increasing Women in Manufacturing

Pamela Kan Bishop Wisecarver Group
April 25, 2014
The number of women currently holding manufacturing jobs in the United States is at its lowest point in more than 40 years, according a Joint Economic Committee report. The report shines a light on the reality that we are not making progress when it comes to increasing the number of women represented in the manufacturing sector.
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Listening and Learning for Success—What Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs Need

Mary Olushoga Awp Network
April 09, 2014
Women entrepreneurs in Nigeria face a host of cultural and institutional hurdles they must negotiate on their way to success. Despite these obstacles, women are thriving because they are learning from each other’s lessons and listening to voices of those who have gone before them.
Entrepreneurs need to be encouraged. It is not easy to start and sustain a business in places like Lagos; building a sustainable business in Nigeria in general is not easy. Entrepreneurs need to know how the system works so that they can survive this challenging and difficult terrain.
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Women Making Slow Gains in the Oil and Gas Industry

March 25, 2014
Sheryl Sandberg’s Leanin.org recently created a series of images with Getty to introduce more realistic portrayals of women in the 21st century.  They break gender stereotypes and make a strong statement challenging the make-up of traditionally “male” roles such as engineering and physics.
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Where are the Women in the App Economy?

Neelie Kroes European Commission
March 12, 2014
All over the world, the digital economy and in particular the app sector are booming. The rest of the economy needs that boost.
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Where are the Women in Leadership?

Janet Crawford Cascadance
February 19, 2014
When it comes to discussion about the absence of women in leadership, there’s something in the air. In the past year, articles, books, and studies have flooded the press, so much so that a new term has emerged: Gender fatigue.

As a female scientist in my early fifties, I’ve lived with this question my entire adult life.  In the early 1980s, I was on the forefront of a movement of women into science and leadership and I naively assumed that equity of representation and pay would soon follow. The numbers, however, tell a very different story.
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