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International Women's Day

From Fast Cars to Gas Turbine Generators, GE Vernova’s Mirella Abboud Is Racing Ahead in Her Career

Dianna Delling
March 08, 2023
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“What are you doing here?”

Mirella Abboud laughs as she recalls the facial expressions, which spoke volumes, of her peers — all of them male — during her 2011 internship at Beirut’s Scuderia Lebanon, a Ferrari dealership. Even a dozen years ago, it was somewhat shocking to see the grease-smudged face of a young woman emerge from beneath the hydraulic lift after working on a sleek 458 Italia.

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Healthcare

The Heart Of An Innovative Program: These Doctors Are Working To Attract More Women To Cardiology

Jodi Helmer
July 14, 2021

When Dr. Marta Sitges was in medical school at Autonomous University of Barcelona in the early 1990s, she studied alongside numerous women who were pursuing careers in medicine. Now, as director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Sitges is often the only woman in the room.

“We have very few females in cardiology and, not only in this field, but in executive positions,” she says. “I haven’t felt discriminated against but, sometimes… being female, you have to demonstrate much more than being a male to reach the same positions.”

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Nuclear Energy

Change Agent: Jhansi Kandasamy Is Helping Women Succeed In Nuclear Energy

Jay Stowe
May 12, 2021

When Jhansi Kandasamy was growing up in Pennsylvania, the 500-foot-tall cooling towers from the nearby Limerick Generating Station, an 1,100-megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant outside Philadelphia, served as the backdrop for her family’s dinner conversations. Her father was a mechanical engineer who designed HVAC systems for nuclear facilities, and he had brought his family to the United States from India for education and opportunity.

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Women In STEM

Shake It Off: This Edison Leader Shows Young Engineers How To Transform Disappointment Into Opportunity

Amy Kover
May 11, 2020

In 1984, Lee Dillon walked through the doors of GE Aviation’s Edison Engineering Development Program with a clear path and an airtight plan. Armed with a brand-new bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University, she would finally see her passion for aeromechanics — the science of how the movement of air and other gases affects physical objects like airplanes — take off in the real world.

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Donna Priadi: Catatan untuk Women In STEM Indonesia

Lukya Panggabean
GE selalu menjadi tempat yang menjunjung tinggi kesetaraan. Ini menjadi salah satu hal yang paling saya banggakan dalam berkarir di GE, yakni adanya komitmen agar semua orang memiliki kesempatan yang sama. Khususnya, mendukung perempuan berkarir di bidang Sains, Teknologi, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM). Untuk GE, hal ini memiliki arti yang sangat penting dan tidak boleh diremehkan.
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GE Indonesia Recognition for Women in STEM

Lukya Panggabean
March 23, 2020
GE selalu mengapresiasi para perintis dan pionir. Mereka inilah yang memunculkan inovasi, mentransformasi, dan mencetuskan berbagai peluang baru. Para perempuan yang menekuni bidang Sains Teknologi, Engineering dan Matematika (STEM) inilah yang menerima apresiasi di acara GE baru-baru ini, yakni GE Indonesia Recognition for Inspiring Women in STEM.
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Women In STEM

The Education Of An Edison: How GE Trains Top Engineers To Stay Curious

Amy Kover
March 09, 2020

Iceland is known for its breathtaking fjords, volcanoes and hot springs. But when Katherine MacManus studied abroad there one summer, she discovered an attraction that's a little harder to convey in an Instagram post: More than 97% of the country's installed power capacity comes from renewable resources.

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Women In STEM

Charting Her Path: This Field Services Engineer Hits The Ground Running In Pakistan

Poornima Apte
March 09, 2020
When Chaman Iftikhar persuaded her boss to take a chance on her a few years ago, she didn’t know just how much her first assignment would test her mettle. As one of Pakistan’s small group of female field services engineers, Iftikhar is also one of few women in professional STEM positions in the country. But when she arrived at the location of her deployment — the remote Guddu power plant in the Pakistani province of Sindh — she was physically isolated too.
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Prime Movers: Motherhood Runs Through GE’s History

Brendan Coffey
May 10, 2019
You’ve probably heard of Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. These women’s professional accomplishments changed the world and inspired future generations of scientists. But they each had a second job that the history books often gloss over: motherhood. Put down a lab coat, pick up a diaper bag — this juggling act plays out each day at GE.
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A Mother’s Day Goal: More Female Engineers

Amy Kover
May 10, 2019
When Agnes Berzsenyi picked up her 17-year-old daughter Sophie after three weeks at a STEM program last summer, she got an earful about boys. The campers had been working in groups to build a hovercraft. As the only female member of her group, Sophie sometimes struggled to be heard. “I had to make my suggestions multiple times before they would listen,” she told her mother incredulously.
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