{"id":170162,"date":"2025-06-23T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170162"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:53:29","slug":"women-in-engineering-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/women-in-engineering-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Engineers: Shaping the Present to Transform the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adriana Vargas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every June 23rd, we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day<\/a>. It\u2019s a good moment to pause\u2014in between meetings, classes, experiments, or reports\u2014and look around to reflect: how many women engineers do we see today leading, creating, innovating? And how many more could be here if, as little girls, they had heard \u201cyes, you can\u201d instead of \u201cthat\u2019s not for you\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m an engineer, a mom, a professor, a researcher, a leader, and a mentor. And while I\u2019ve had to pave my way through traditionally male environments, I\u2019ve also seen how things are beginning to shift. I\u2019ve seen female students present their projects with the confidence of those who know their voice matters, and I\u2019ve celebrated with colleagues when their ideas break through, not only technical barriers, but cultural ones too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I\u2019ve also heard the hard stories. Students who doubt themselves despite having more than enough talent. Researchers who feel they have to prove themselves twice as much. Professionals who, upon becoming mothers, feel their careers are put on pause while their peers keep moving forward. And that needs to be said, too: there is still a long road ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promoting gender equality in engineering is not just a matter of justice\u2014it\u2019s a commitment to excellence. The great challenges of our time\u2014energy transition, responsible automation, and industrial sustainability\u2014need all voices. We can\u2019t keep trying to solve problems with teams that only represent part of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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