Subcon 2019 to celebrate Women’s Engineering Society centenary
UK manufacturing supply chain show Subcon will see the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) attend to mark 100 years of the society. The final morning of the show, which runs 4-6 June 2019 at the Birmingham’s NEC, will be dedicated to the need to improve UK engineering’s gender balance, with content curated by WES. Speakers will […]
Women in Fasteners & Tools: Construction’s skills shortage
Poor diversity and a significant skills shortage are among the challenges facing the construction sector. Charity Women on the Tools (WotT) is aiming to tackle these head on, by making construction an appealing option for women early in their career development… It will be news to none of Torque’s readers that gender diversity in the construction industry is spectacularly poor. But perhaps you’ve not […]
Women in Fasteners & Tools: Mirka Valovicova, fischer fixings
Mirka Valovicova, Technical Manager at fischer fixings, leads a team of seven and clocks up hours on construction sites across the country. Torque quizzes Valovicova on her experiences in the fixings business… How did you get into the industry in the first place? By pure chance. From an early age I preferred activities requiring logical thinking instead of humanities subjects, but […]