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International conviviality: recovering women in engineering from Africa and Asia in ‘The Woman Engineer’

19th October 20202nd July 2020 by Emily Rees Koerner

In this blog Graeme Gooday uncovers the stories of women engineers from Asia and Africa as written about in The Woman Engineer, journal of the UK’s Women’s Engineering Society.

Categories Archive Material, Historical, Individual Engineers Tags international, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM

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