EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND

INCLUSION IN ENGINEERING
EDI in engineering and its importance.
• What does EDI mean to you?
• EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) ensures fair treatment and opportunity for all. It aims to eradicate prejudice and discrimination
on the basis of an individual or group of individual protected characteristics.
• Why it is important in engineering？
• It makes organizations, including those active in engineering, more competitive and efficient.
• What do u think the engineering community should be working to improve?
• provide a supportive environment where women can share their experiences, knowledge and skills with one another, encouraging
growth and development to advance in their careers.

RAeng Strategy 2020- 2025

Goals for Inclusion:
• We will work with partners to: Boost the numbers and diversity of those entering
engineering careers.
• Promote and expand the use of innovative approaches and best practice in engineering
education and training.
• Catalyze a step change in the diversity of the workforce at all levels and prevalence of
inclusive cultures across engineering industry.
Overview: • Continue to diversify the Academy’s Fellowship and awardees and embed diversity and
• Their overarching goal for 2025 is to harness the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that inclusion across all our activities.
works for everyone. • Stimulate modernization of the UK approach to professional development and lifelong
• A sustainable society is one in which development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future learning for engineers and technicians.
generations to meet their own needs. • Ensure that ethical best practice is fully embedded in UK engineering education, training and
• In an inclusive economy, the fruits of prosperity are shared across all regions and groups in society, with engineering serving as an professional development.
enabler of improvements to people’s lives. An inclusive economy is also internationally competitive and resilient to technological
changes and threats to public health, security, safety and stability.

Actions to be carried out by 2025:

Adopting a Goal Focused Approach:
• Investing at least £180 million in talent and diversity, innovation and policy work to support the goals, leveraging more than £500 million in follow-on
• Significantly increase the proportion of grants that directly address our strategic goals. For some schemes, 100% of grants will be
investment from others.
targeted directly at the goals.
• Supporting the founding and growth of at least 500 companies that will deliver benefits for a sustainable society and inclusive economy.
• Develop new best-in-class training and support packages for awardees to enhance their ability to contribute towards the goals.
• Enhancing the leadership capabilities of at least 7,500 engineers.
• Support the development of communities and networks involving awardees that enhance progress towards the goals.
• Inspiring at least 1 million young people to consider engineering careers, at least half of whom come from under-represented groups.
• Identify barriers to the goals and proactively encourage proposals and, where appropriate, new schemes to address them.
• Engaging 500 engineering businesses and organisations to embed inclusive working cultures across the engineering profession.
• Promote role models and learning from our schemes to inspire and inform others.
• Supporting alliances using engineering and technology to address global challenges in more than 40 countries across six continents.
• Review all our existing portfolios to consider the contribution each activity makes to the goals. Those that do not contribute will be
modified to strengthen their impact on the goals or discontinued if more appropriate.
• All proposals for new activities will be assessed against their anticipated contribution to the goals.

PROTECTED CHARECTERSITCS:
Engineering employer
• Is this group under-represented in the engineering profession? Company of focus: Boeing
Yes, it does because this group has no females, where there is gender inequality.
What adversity do they face? As the group lacks females, finding their perspective is hard.
• How and why did you choose your focus?
Because overall, the groupmates do not face any adversity, and in all ways, we are equal.
Except there isn’t any female groupmate where all our groupmates face adversity. So, I chose Gender as my focus.
• Present any data that demonstrates a lack of equality or diversity for this group ?
Women are highly valued and supported due to their fewer numbers compared to their male equivalents in certain
specialisations, the
presence of women is often highly appreciated and valued. As an example, for its scientific policies, the European commission
actively encourages its member states to source extensively amongst their female talents.
• What is the impact on society
It has been noticed that women generally opt for particular studies or professional activities because of the impact those
studies or activities have on social issues. As an engineer, you will be actively contributing to resolving major societal issues.
• Job security and attractive salaries
Society will always need engineers to progress on numerous fronts; as a result of this you will benefit from genuine job security
and attractive salaries.
• Positive teamwork
You will be working with teams that will be rich in talent, covering many sectors and nations. Furthermore, you will be able to
improve your skills constantly.
• Significant mobility
You will be able to work wherever you want to and will be offered a broad spectrum of choices foreign countries, urban or rural
environments, business or industrial environments, access to the research sector… You may even travel and discover new
horizons if that is your ambition.
• Significant flexibility • Boeing plans to increase their representation of African Americans in their work force by 20% by the end of 2022. This is a perfect
You will be able to benefit from genuine flexibility in how you organise your working hours and your career. Moreover, you will opportunity to raise the inclusion of a historically marginalised group, and provide very good and high paying opportunities for
people living in potentially poor communities.
be able to adapt this to suit your own rhythm and that of your family without being forced to choose between your family life
• The company is also forming “Business Research Groups” that are designed to specifically ally with one marginalized group and
and your career. push for their interests within the company, while working with other groups to ensure that the Boeing work environment is an
• A progressive profession inclusive environment for everyone. BAPA (Boeing Asian and Pacific Association) and BWIL (Boeing Women Inspiring Leadership) to
You will be able to benefit from the advantages of new technologies, and your job will be in constant progression. Whilst certain name a few.
engineering careers were generally reserved exclusively for men in the past, today, the reality is completely different. • Boeing have also, launched their “Seek, Speak & Listen” initiative in which employees are actively encouraged to stay vigilant
for non-inclusive behaviour and report to a senior member of staff so that it can be dealt with. Employees are also encouraged to
listen to women, LGBT employees, and employees of colour, in order to better understand their struggles within the company, and
be able to help create a better working environment for them. Employees can stay up to date on the progress of the initiative by
following the hashtag #SeekSpeekListen across various social media platforms.
• As part of this strategy, all new management staff at Boeing must undergo sensitivity training.
• An in-company survey about the SS&L strategy revealed that 70% of the teams surveyed believe that their manager care
about their safety and happiness at work. These surveys also revealed that 68% of black employees trust their manager to address
workplace bias, compared to 87% of white employees. This is Boeings next focus.
• Boeing offers a wide range of personal assistance to help various types of employees through their time there. This includes 12
weeks parental leave, adoption assistance, child care and elder care assistance, domestic partnership benefits, and gender
reassignment assistance.
• Boeing is committed to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and ensuring that people from all walks of life can easily navigate their
website and communicate with the company. If anyone has any trouble engaging with them then they are encouraged to request
online, where elderly and disabled customers can get assistance in their search.
• The Global Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team are a division of Boeing that is dedicated to the hiring of minority groups and
ensuring the best possible working conditions for them.
• In 2021 the GEDI team gave $3.4million to black communities and universities in America through grants, scholarships and other
schemes.
• Altogether since 2020, the team has invested $30 million in organizations focused on racial equity and social justice.
• In 2021, 49% of Boeing UK graduate hires and 47% of interns were women.
• Have given $4billion in contracts to small businesses, $2billion to minority and female owned businesses, and $400million to
veteran owned businesses.
• The percentage of both women and minorities in the workforce increased from 2020 to 2021. Women from 24.3% to 24.6%
worldwide, and racial minorities from 31.2% to 32.7% in the US.