Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering.

该项目促进公众对女性参与工程的历史认识，从而支持英国妇女工程学会(WES)2019年的百年纪念活动。我们的目标尤其是支持WES百年纪念计划的主题--记住过去。WES百年纪念正值英国招聘女性担任工程职位特别具有挑战性的时候，女性仅占英国工程师的11%，而其他职业的平均比例为47%，以及相关的多元化挑战。一种非常有弹性但不准确的观点加剧了这种情况，即女性在工程学中的地位并没有真正的历史根深蒂固。因此，像Wes一样，我们将利用女性过去在工程领域工作的故事，帮助正常化这样一种期望，即今天的女性也可以成为完整职业生涯的专业工程师，努力打破过去有系统地将女性排除在工程学之外的无益神话。我们的项目将补充WES的百年纪念活动，重点关注WES成立之前妇女参与工程及其对WES时代的长期影响，参与利用PI的AHRB/AHRC支持的驯化电力输出(2008年)和共同撰写的明显可竞争(2013)的活动。因此，我们的目标是：在1919年WES成立之前，甚至在第一次世界大战之前，加强公众对活跃在英国工程领域的女性的理解。ii)展示WES在促进女性在工程领域的作用是如何在很大程度上利用了这一“史前”的；iii)突出表明，如果我们拒绝个人主义的神话，即它只由个人(男性)完成，那么女性在工程领域的历史性工作是如何变得更加明显的)表明了更长期的历史证据在解决目前对英国女性工程参与率相对较低的担忧方面的价值：在挽回这种情况时，实际上有一个女性参与的悠久传统可以建立，而不是任何新的破土动工。我们的主要活动将是在英国各地进行一系列讲座，然后与观众进行讨论。这将提高人们对一战前从事工程工作的女性的认识，使用驯化电力公司探索配偶赡养角色的故事，特别是爱丽丝·戈登，与卡罗琳·哈斯莱特作为独立工程师的例子形成对比。这些讲座将在博物馆、图书馆、大学和遗产开放日举行。我们的第二个主要活动将是创建一个“让女性兴奋”的博客和社交媒体个人资料，这将成为项目成员运营的社交媒体活动的核心。博客帖子将突出WES之前从事电气工程工作的其他女性的特定客串。我们的第三项活动受到我们之前与IET和WES的合作的启发，是与专业的Wikimedian(Alice White饰)一起组织专门的wikithons，在女性工程学会崛起之前为参与工程的女性创建、增强和推广页面。我们的第四项活动是举办创意写作课程，作为讲座的后续活动，我们的第五项活动是建立一个项目网站，提供资源和链接，以帮助实现上述所有目标，以促进进一步参与创作活动，从而促进学术界和更广泛的公共领域的广泛观众对历史的更好理解。我们的第六项活动将支持利兹大学戏剧和表演专业的一群学生制作一部名为《激动人心的女性》的音乐剧，利用我们的项目材料设计。表演的录音将在YouTube上分享。

This project promotes public awareness of women's historical participation in engineering so as to support the UK's Women's Engineering Society (WES) centenary commemorations in 2019. We aim especially to support the WES centenary programme theme of 'Remembering the Past'.The WES centenary comes at a time when recruitment of women to engineering positions in the UK is exceptionally challenging, with women only constituting 11% of UK engineers, compared to 47% on average for other professions, and associated challenges in diversity. This situation is exacerbated by the remarkably resilient - yet inaccurate view - that women's place in engineering has no real historically-embedded position. So like WES we will deploy stories of women's past work in engineering to help normalise the expectation that women today can also become professional engineers for a full career, working against unhelpful myths that women have been systematically excluded from engineering in the past. Our project will complement WES's centenary activities by focusing upon women's participation in engineering well prior to WES's foundation, and the long-term ramifications thereof into the WES era, in activities that draw upon the PI's AHRB/AHRC supported outputs Domesticating Electricity (2008), and co-authored Patently Contestable (2013). We thus aim toi) enhance public understanding of women active in British engineering before WES's foundation in 1919, and indeed before World War 1ii)show how WES's role in promoting women in engineering drew significantly upon that 'pre-history'iii) highlight how women's historic work in engineering becomes more visible if we reject individualist myths that it was accomplished only by individual (male) heroesiv) show the value of longer term historical evidence in addressing the current concern about UK women's comparatively low participation rate in engineering: in redeeming this situation there is in fact a long tradition of women's participation to build upon, rather than any new ground to break. Our primary activity will be a series of lectures across the UK followed by discussion and with audiences. This will raise awareness of women working in pre-First World War engineering using stories from Domesticating Electricity's exploration of spousal support roles, especially Alice Gordon, contrasted with Caroline Haslett as an example of an independent engineer. These lectures will take place in museums, libraries, universities, and Heritage Open Days.Our second major activity will be to create an 'Electrifying Women' blog and social media profile which will be at the heart of a social media campaign run by project members. Blog posts will highlight both particular cameos of other women working in electrical engineering before WES Our third activity, inspired by our previous collaboration with the IET and WES, is to organise with a professional Wikimedian (Alice White) dedicated wikithons to create, enhance and promote pages for the women involved in engineering before the rise of the Women's Engineering Society. Our fourth activity is to run creative writing sessions as follow-up events for lectures, with audiences enabled thereby to explore fresh ways of bringing to life the rarely documented work of engineering spouses e.g. through fictional diaries that extrapolate from extant fragmentary sources.Our fifth activity is to set up a project website of resources and links to help meet all the objectives outlined above to facilitate further engagement in creative activities that can promote better historical understanding among a wide-range of audiences both inside academia and in the wider public sphere.Our sixth activity will be to support a group of Theatre and Performance Students at the University of Leeds in producing a musical theatre production titled 'Electrifying Women', devised using our project materials. A recording of the performance will be shared on Youtube.