{"id":300377,"date":"2017-03-09T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=300377"},"modified":"2017-03-09T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:53:07","slug":"newmont-women-encourage-girls-to-take-up-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/newmont-women-encourage-girls-to-take-up-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Newmont women encourage girls to take up engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"
The low numbers of females in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics continues to be a challenge and exposing young women to successful role models in the field could be way of encouraging more women to take up STEM courses in school.<\/p>\n
In view of this, three of Newmont Ghana\u2019s female engineers have dedicated themselves to mentoring and empowering young ladies at junior and senior high school levels to enroll in Science, Technology and Engineering disciplines, sharing their experiences and engaging with them \u201ccertainly sparked up their interest and encouraged scores of them to take up careers in science and engineering\u201d.<\/p>\n
These three female engineers enlightened over a thousand female students at the Women in Engineering (WINE) Conference in the Ashanti region, about the vast career opportunities for women in science and engineering fields.<\/p>\n
Gertrude Eshun, a Mine Geologist, Elizabeth Hazel, an IT engineer and Mandy Lokko a Processing Engineer shared their academic and professional experiences with the students, correcting their widely-held perceptions that engineering is a preserve of men.<\/p>\n