Engineering institutions get first women presidents
4 May, 2021 03:00 AM
4 minutes to read We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied
They were the old boys clubs of New Zealand engineering. Women run them now. I wish it weren t newsworthy, Rosalind Archer says in jest about her March appointment as president of Engineering New Zealand, the 22,000-member behemoth that registers the country s chartered professional engineers and holds them to account.
One month before Archer, Michelle Grant became the first woman president of the Structural Engineering Society. Last April, Helen Ferner made similar waves at the Society for Earthquake Engineering.
Three engineering institutions, three female presidents
4 May, 2021 03:00 AM
4 minutes to read We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied
They were the old boys clubs of New Zealand engineering. Women run them now. I wish it weren t newsworthy, Rosalind Archer says in jest about her March appointment as president of Engineering New Zealand, the 22,000-member behemoth that registers the country s chartered professional engineers and holds them to account.
One month before Archer, Michelle Grant became the first woman president of the Structural Engineering Society. Last April, Helen Ferner made similar waves at the Society for Earthquake Engineering.