Congratulations to Neil Pepper MBE who has just won The European Women In Construction & Engineering (WICE) Awards for Best Male Mentor 2020.
Neil is a volunteer board member for Women in Transport, a Night Construction Manager in Renewals and Enhancements at London Underground and a passionate STEM ambassador.
In this wonderful video Neil and his mentee, Milda Pladaite, share their experience of mentoring and Neil talks about why he feels being a male ally and mentor is so important.
The aim of the WICE Awards is to make construction and engineering more enticing to women, to create role models for women considering a career in these sectors, while encouraging companies to employ and train more women in these industries.
Women represent only 11% of the construction workforce in the UK and most of these jobs are office based and only 2% work in manual jobs. When it comes to women in engineering only 9% of UK engineering professionals are women.
Congratulations to all the Award winners. We are also thrilled that Victoria Sutherland, a Women in Transport members from Mott MacDonald was awarded Best Woman Rail Engineer 2020.
You can see the full list of winners here..
Video produced by and shared with permission from Jermaine Grant.
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