Women engineers resolve to play proactive role in engineering industry
WDC Sindh moves to organize women engineers for
women empowerment, a better work environment

Ensuring that 100 plus female engineers attend any moot is no easy task for sure. But it happened last week in Karachi when the Women Development Committee, Sindh, formed by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) in the backdrop of its efforts to empower women engineers in the country. The committee is led by Engr Abdul Rehman Shaikh, a member of the Governing Body (GB) of the council.
A number of leading women engineers and academicians attended the moot presided over by PEC Chairman Engr. Najeeb Haroon at a local hotel.
The presence of a good number of women engineers and professionals testified that they are ready to play their part in many respects such as encouraging females to pick engineering as their profession, take on challenges on project sites, and involve in research and development initiatives in the country.
The moot was informed that over 24 thousand women engineers are registered with the PEC and the actual number could be more. A big number is serving engineering institutions besides their services in a variety of engineering fields both in public and private sectors.
The committee which is an offshoot of the Central Women Engineers Development Committee of the council resolves to lobby corporate companies to facilitate married women engineers through setting up daycare facilities for their kids. Also, all those facilities that women engineers deserve and are enshrined in should be offered to them.
Several prominent women engineers noted that the females have come out of traditional professional fields such as medical sciences and teaching and are choosing engineering as their future. Growing ratios of female candidates in engineering universities across Pakistan confirm this perception which they say would improve engineering education and also give a boost to research and development in the country.
Chairman PEC Najeeb Haroon besides Engr. Abdul Qadir Shah, Engr. Mukhtiar A. Shaikh and others spoke about encouraging women engineers and expected them to play a bigger role in the engineering industry.
The moot was attended by a number of PEC GB members including Engr. Syed Ragib Hussain Shah (Former Chairman WAPDA), Engr. Mohammad Shafiq, Engr. Mohsin Khan, Dr Aneel Kumar, Dr Khadija Qureshi. – ER