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SUMMARY:Dr Emily Rees Koerner: Normalising The Woman Engineer: Cultivating 
 The Professional Practice Of British Women Engineers
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that demand for labour during the First World 
 War led to women entering the workforce on an unprecedented scale in the U
 K\, particularly in engineering\; it is less well known that after the war
  women were expected to leave these roles for men returning from the front
 \, as legislated in the Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act (1919). For s
 ome women this was an unreasonable demand\, and they began to organise: in
  1919\, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) was founded.\nThis seminar
  examines how WES\, in its early decades\, attempted to normalise women en
 gineers in industry\, attempted to degender the profession\, with a focus 
 on how it used its magazine The Woman Engineer to establish a professional
  voice for women engineers\, demonstrate women’s capability as workers\,
  and create a community of practice\, in the face of widespread hostility 
 from the engineering industry and its unions. Still published today\, The 
 Woman Engineer provides a valuable historical record of the evolving role 
 of women in engineering over more than a century.\nUnlike other profession
 s\, however\, engineering has remained largely a male-dominated field\, ev
 en after barriers to women’s participation were removed in the decades f
 ollowing the Second World War. In examining the early history of WES\, thi
 s paper will also ask whether the history of campaigning for women in engi
 neering can help us to understand the contemporary challenges for normalis
 ing the woman engineer.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/198931/dr-emily-rees-koerner-normalis
 ing-the-woman-engineer-cultivating-the-professional-practice-of-british-wo
 men-engineers/
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LOCATION:Centre for Languages\, Culture and Communication\, Level 3\, Sherf
 ield Building\, South Kensington Campus\, Imperial College London\, London
 \, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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