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On the degrading comments made by an engineering society leader

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by EngineerChic in Diversity, South Africa, Unconscious bias, women in engineering, Women in technology

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More girls are starting to choose careers in STEM, and early wins have been made in getting more women into leadership positions, having a hugely positive effect on the situation for other women in their organizations. Despite this, the fabric that these incredible leaders have woven is still thin, and influencers can still negatively impact the struggle against overt discrimination, unconscious bias, and the endless micro-aggressions from family, friends and co-workers that women in STEM face.

My personal experience speaks volumes to that struggle, and the many comments on this blog over the years tell me that I have not been alone in this.

  • In high-school, I had to lie to my parents and apply to mechanical engineering in secret, to avoid them forcing me to do something medical.
  • Instead of congratulating me for getting a scholarship interview at a mining company, a teacher decided to expound on how difficult the working environment would be, and wouldn’t I rather do something like medicine or teaching?
  • Upon learning I had received a full scholarship to study mechanical engineering, a friend’s parent remarked, “But why? That’s so…manly!”

If I wasn’t hell-bent on becoming an engineer, and if my circumstances had not been so fortunate, the ‘social and proximal factors’ around me would have forced me into a career outside STEM, and I would never have known the joy of doing what I absolutely loved, what I was born to do!

It thus sickens me to read that the CEO of a South African civil engineering society SAICE, Manglin Pillay will not be asked to step down from his position, after commenting in a SAICE magazine column (also posted on his LinkedIn profile) that South Africa should stop investing in women engineers.

In the column, Pillay quoted from a study by Leeds Beckett’s School of Social Sciences and the University of Missouri that women in gender-equal societies choose care or people-orientated careers while men tend to choose careers that orient them to things and mechanics.

Pillay’s conclusion was that women prefer not to occupy high-profile executive posts because they would rather have “the flexibility to dedicate themselves to more important enterprises like family and raising children than to be at the beck and call of shareholders”.

Pillay goes on to explain that the sole reason for women leaving the field is to raise children (and not the overwhelming gender discrimination they face every day), and that the gender pay gap does not exist, and if it does, its only because women are so congenial in negotiating salaries – a trait that comes from the “maternal instinct”.

Gosh, I am baffled at the level of ignorance in these statements. Where to even begin?In my years as a volunteer at ASME – the leading global society of mechanical engineers – I could have never imagined any of its leaders making remarks such as this – not least of all because many of them were women themselves, which set an excellent example for the industry.

Pillay’s comments are outstandingly irresponsible for a thought-leader in his position, with the influence he has over the industry, and are a terrible reflection on the organization of SAICE. His comments directly work against progressive organizations like WomEng and SWE, who work to balance the negative influence that society holds for girls pursuing STEM careers.

Worse still, his statements normalize and justify similar beliefs held by men (and women) on the role of women in the workplace, perpetuating harmful societal beliefs at a time when women have barely begun to experience the smallest of wins in closing the gender pay gap and in starting conversations about unconscious bias. One example of unconscious bias: a man leaves to tend to a sick child, he’s applauded as a hero. A woman does the same and she’s sloppy.

In addition to being wildly inappropriate, his conclusions are also horrifically false, and telling of a deep-set belief that women don’t belong in senior leadership roles. 

As highlighted in Professor Alison Lewis (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at my Alma Mater – the University of Cape Town) in her open letter to SAICE, the research Pillay quoted, “does not, in my view, lead to the conclusion that there should be less investment in attracting women into STEM careers.”

The research clearly states, “that the career and education choices made by girls are a function of both social as well as proximal factors”.

Reading the examples I gave above, it doesn’t take much to understand what “social and proximal factors” influence a girl’s decision not to take science as a subject, despite them excelling at it.

“On the contrary”, Lewis goes on to say, “the only way to fight for gender equality is by inspiring girls about STEM careers, promoting access to STEM disciplines and changing work environments to actively support women’s contributions. The development of women role models in the engineering professions is another vital aspect. This is the only way we will be able to change the real choices that are available to girls. Even “gender neutral societies” are still very far from gender neutral!”

And that pretty much sums it up for me. SAICE – with their all-male leadership team of Presidents and Vice-Presidents – should look long and hard at who they are, because what I’ve learned in my years of serving the C-Suite, is that the attitudes of the CEO are pervasive throughout the organization, and directly influence its culture. In SAICE’s case, the effects of an article such as this could poison an industry.

For some research-backed literature on some structural issues women face in the workplace, check these posts out:

What is unconscious bias?

Mentorship and sponsorship for career adancement

UPDATE:

The SAICE has since decided to sack Manglin Pillay, after calls from the engineering community and its members forced them to do the right thing.  A win for gender equality, although I still believe that having at least one woman on the SAICE Board would have had a major effect on its initial decision to keep Pillay in the position, thus avoiding the embarrassment and member outrage caused.  This is a fair lesson for the Boards of private and social sector companies and non-profits.


DISCLAIMER: I am in no way a spokesperson for ASME or for any other organization. All comments and views are strictly my own and do not reflect that of any organization I may be affiliated with.

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Freedom Day in South Africa

27 Friday Apr 2012

Posted by EngineerChic in Diversity, South Africa, women in engineering

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Today marks the 18th anniversary of democracy in South Africa. On this day in 1994, people of colour were allowed to vote for the first time, ending Apartheid and white minority-rule in South Africa, with Nelson Mandela being elected into presidency.

Since then, our country has come quite a way! We now have our third democratically-elected president, equal rights for women and all races live in peace and harmony. Ok, maybe thats a bit too optimistic, but in the short time that we have been free, a lot has been done to further equality in my country.  It’s hard to imagine the very different world my mother and father grew up in.

For starters, it was close to impossible for non-whites to study engineering during Apartheid.  In fact, most of the private-sector was closed off to non-whites due to the harsh racist laws imposed.  Most promising young people went into fields such as medicine and law fields that allowed them to practise their professions within their communities. This is why doctors and lawyers are still highly revered in the Indian community of South Africa. (My dentist told me that he would have been an engineer if he had had the opportunity.)

On the other hand, globally, womens’ rights in the education system and the workplace have greatly improved over the last few decade. Part of South Africa’s Constitution, written shortly after Nelson Mandela became leader of our country, creates a platform for women to have equal rights to men in all regards. Over the last decade in particular, the country have implemented key policies to see this dream manifest. As a result, companies in South Africa’s largest industry – one that hires the most amount of engineers in the country – has started realising the value that women add in the workplace.

Mining in South Africa is by far the most important sector of our economy – a large piece of the pie which until recently had been completely closed off to non-whites and women.  Due to legislation, women have been encouraged and aided into careers in the mining industry – from both a developmental/ technical standpoint, as well as a business and leadership one. Despite the support women get, most still bear the brunt of discrimination in its many forms in the workplace. As elsewhere in the world, this is changing, however slowly.

Working in this space, I have been fortunate to encounter amazing women who have managed to make their mark in the toughest of industries despite real challenges.  So much has changed in the last 18years that its impossible to imagine how my life would have been in those days. I am really grateful to the men and women who sacrificed their freedom, reputation, careers and even lives to bring freedom to me and every other South African.

HAPPY FREEDOM DAY SOUTH AFRICA

 

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Airports and Africa

29 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by EngineerChic in Career, South Africa, Travel

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I guess part of being an engineer is the travelling. But I must admit, I probably travel a bit more than the average engineer. Volunteering for my professional society has its perks – I am off to New Orleans, Louisiana. But most of the travelling I do is between our plant/ construction site in Mpumalanga and the offices of our design consultants in Johannesburg. The 4 hour drive isn’t much fun, but I’m glad to get away from the sticks once in a while and back to city life…

Living in the country grows on you though, and I find myself really feeling at home on those long, mountainous country roads, where the only traffic is the cows and the wildlife. I almost hit a Civit today (a type of large wild cat). This adds to my list of near-miss animals that I’ve seen on the roads since I moved into the wilderness…

  • Nguni cows (which EcoHawk mistook for wildebeest! Bless him, poor Yank!)
  • Kudu (a beautiful, large antelope – a gorgeous, adult male galloped alongside my car one morning)
  • Bushpig
  • Civet
  • Guinea Fowl (A stupid and annoying wild chicken)
  • Dogs – the domestic kind
  • Several birds, some of which I actually hit by accident (sorry!)
  • Goats
  • Baboons!!!! These guys collect in troops along the pass between my farm and Lydenburg town. It’s a wonder I haven’t hit any yet
  • Vervet Monkeys

It is like darkest Africa sometimes, but I really love it. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to travel much into actual darkest Africa yet. South Africa is quite developed but some of the older engineers at work tell stories of years of contracting projects in Nigeria, Angola, the Congo and Mozambique. Their stories put mine to shame – the shocking living conditions, potitical turmoil, bribing of police and military officials, and of course, large tax-free pay checks! Exploratory mining work seems extremely exciting, but completely wild! I am dying to get a chance to explore more African countries…what fun!

 

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Leopard Conservation in South Africa

17 Sunday Jul 2011

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A photo Anton and Emma took on the game farm
I’d like to take a short break from engineering, marketing and all other serious topics and share a little about my experience living in rural South Africa. I live in a farming community deep in the Mpumalanga Lowveld amidst beautiful mountains in a valley full of citrus orchards. Just around the corner however, is the base of the Ingwe Leopard Project.

Anton with a Cheetah at Moholoholo Rehabilitation Center



Ingwe Website
Friends of mine, conservationists Emma and Anton are researchers who are leading the effort to stabalise leopard population numbers in the area. Apart from tracking leopard behavior, they run an education program for farmers who kill leopards thinking them menaces. I spent the weekend with them and their current volunteer house sitting the luxury tented Black Leopard Camp.
The luxurious Black Leopard Camp-nestled deep in the mountains and accessed only by special off-road vehicles
Black Leopard Camp
Lucky me!
The weekend started off with arriving at the carcas of a wildebeest that Anton had shot. The animal had a hernia and was suffering quite a lot. Also, in the same area, a leopard had recently given birth to three adorable cubs. Anton hoped that the kill would increase the chances of the cubs surviving. Just one in 6 leopard cubs survive to adulthood and the mother will leave them for days on end in order to find food.
Daniel, the Brazilian volunteer gutting the wildebeest to make the smell more noticable to the leopard-mother
We took a few fillets for supper, which was spent around a roaring fire at the bar.
Wildebeest Steaks!
Saturday was spent hiking a mountain to scout leopard activity and place GPS coordinates on the far corner of the park. This tiresome task took about 5 hours (and did I mention involved climbing a mountain?) but the exercise was great. We saw a number of animals and birds and the view was spectacular! I’ll post the pictures at some point.
We discovered that that area of the park had very little leopard activity, which was useful anyway. The work that Ingwe have done is truly amazing. Their camera traps have aided in tracking the local leopards that inhabit the area and their research will help to conservation planning, especially in farming communities in other places. Their volunteer program allows conservation-enthusiasts from all over the world the chance to experience South African conservation first-hand. Currently, Daniel from Brazil-a jaguar-conservationist from Brazil is at Ingwe.
More information on their website: Ingwe website

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Architecture after Apartheid: Remembrance and Forgetting

02 Monday May 2011

Posted by EngineerChic in South Africa

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Okay I know what you’re all gonna say so I admit, I am officially the laziest blogger on the net! But in my defense I am freakishly busy right now (but seriously-what’s new?). And FOR ONCE the topic of my other blog lines up with this one (why didn’t I think of this sooner?)…

…So….

Take a look at my latest blog post on

Africa on the Blog: Architecture after Apartheid

Do I get brownie points for ‘recycling’ posts? Just look how sustainable I am!

But in other news, I have successfully just finished the mountain of work I’ve been buried under for weeks! From tomorrow the audit begins and the real fun starts! Can you think of anything as much fun as an audit? Yay!

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Africa on the Blog

05 Saturday Feb 2011

Posted by EngineerChic in South Africa

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I have very exciting news! I have started to blog for an amazing and incredibly awesome consortium of bloggers: Africa on the Blog-the Voice of Africa from all over the world.
Check out: www.africaontheblog.com
This diverse group of bloggers has graciously allowed me an outlet for my deep and profound love for my country and continent: Africa. 
As a fellow blogger, Naomi says in her post Dream Destinations in South Africa: Ah Africa, whats to do but LOVE YOU?
African trees silhouetted in the sunset
Since I have recently relocated from the beautiful, cosmopolitan city of Cape Town to the rural yet divinely stunning settlement of Steelpoort, I have been astounded by the breathtaking, untouched stillness of Africa! It has inspired me! See my first post: I am African .So please everyone, check out the site! Looking forward to your emails and comment (which I absolutely love receiving)!

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Beautiful Africa

23 Sunday Jan 2011

Posted by EngineerChic in South Africa

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Mpumalanga: The Land of the Rising Sun

I’m getting better at the drive between Johannesburg and Steelpoort. Today, I returned in just 3.5 hours, with two short stops for petrol and a snack. Seeing as the first time it took me just over 5 hours, things are certainly looking up! 
The road out of Steelpoort

Also, excitingly, I’ve been invited to a Leadership Training Conference in Dallas, Texas in early March. This will be the third trip that I’ve taken through ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)…and of course, it is fully funded by them. Thankfully, my supervisor is also excited about me representing my company overseas, as she let me take a few days off for travel! Yes!

African Sky

I’m really starting to love Steelpoort. Sure, its not the most beautiful spot in Mpumalanga. Sabie’s waterfalls or the famous ‘Potholes’ are absolutely stunning! But there is a stillness here. An Africanness. 
A typical, rural African road: Potholes for Africa!

Potholes of a different kind: formed from the meeting of two rivers
We are surrounded by rural Africans, and we’re building on reclaimed, community-leased land! I wave at the children as they return home from school and the goats timidly cross the roads, dodging the cars. 
South Africa’s resources industry is the backbone of our economy

Although rife with poverty and unemployment, I feel almost hesitant to bring progress to this place. I know that is an incredibly colonial thing to say, but this vast meandering valley, cradled by sweeping green mountains, are just so untouched.

Uniquely African

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The road to Lion

19 Wednesday Jan 2011

Posted by EngineerChic in Career, South Africa

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As my handsome Prince Charming had to leave once more to fight battles on the distant shores of Australia, I was left to the daunting task of driving up to Steelpoort by myself. Steelpoort is the tiny weeny little rural town in the province of Mpumalanga where my company has recently built a Ferrochrome smelting plant, called Lion. I was about to start an exciting job in the project management department, who had just begun work on another plant right next to Lion I, called Lion Phase II! 
Reality check: I had got my driver’s licence on Monday 3rd. I drove my car out of the showroom on Friday 7th and had to drive the 6 hours to Johannesburg on Saturday 8th, then another 5 hours on Sunday 9th, to begin work on Monday 10th! But you know I love leaving things to the very last minute! Just imagine for a second that I hadn’t passed my driver’s…
Anyway, so here is me, never having driven alone for more than an hour, having to drive all the way to Steelpoort, a place in the middle of rural Mpumalanga, a place I have never been (and nobody I know has been there either), all alone…My sister drove up to JHB with me, and that was a really beautiful drive. Nobody told me how lovely the N3 was between DBN and JHB! We had a great road-trip and I put her on a plane Sunday morning at Lanseria Airport. Note to self: never, ever use this airport again! 
So on Sunday morning I decide not to use my Garmin GPS (which insisted on taking me through all the dodgy long back-raods) and instead use the map that my company had sent me. The problem was, the map only shows the last 2 hours of the road to Steelpoort. But, being my clever self, I decide to stay on the major highways until I need to turn off onto the winding rural roads that would lead me through Middleburg and finally to Steelpoort. Sound like a good plan? Yes? Well, knowing my luck (and my affinity for getting lost) I end up missing a major turn-off!
I realised about 10km after the turn that I may be on the wrong road, so I pulled of at a Petroport and made the best decision I had all day: I bought myself a good-old, South African road map! Yes, I was on the wrong road, but no worry, I can simply take the next ramp, turn around and be on my way. How was I to know that  to simply get to the Petroport on the other side of the highway, I had to pass through not one, not two, but THREE toll-gates! sigh…I got through these toll-gates (ok, they totalled to about R20, but I still felt very badly used and irrevocably robbed!)  pulled off at the opposite Petroport, turned off my Garmin, and cried for about ten minutes. Then, feeling much better about the adventure I was embarking on, I set off into the unknown once again!
I arrived at Steelpoort, which can barely even call itself a town, and drove about aimlessly for about 30 mins looking for the Serabi ‘Guesthouse’ they had booked me into until I found a place. Finally having found the entrance (a dirt-road turn-off lined with thorn bushes), I pulled up outside a line of CONTAINERS?!??? Containers that had been turned into rooms! 
No. They couldn’t have! They didn’t put me here. They CANT have! I was so exhausted by this stage that I didn’t even notice the row of brick buildings on the other end of the parking lot. Thankfully, they had booked me into a brick room, and not a dodgy steel container! What a relief! I’ve arrived, I’m going to settle in, have a shower, and before long I will have my own place, my own bed, and get into the rhythm of my new life here. I wonder if there are other runners I can connect with. Thats would be nice, wouldn’t it? It actually quite peaceful out here, and unbelievably beautiful…what a relief! The enormous feeling of relief vanished when I actually saw the room. I had myself another nice, long cry and went to bed.
And…when I got to work the next day, the very first thing my new boss told me, was that he was sending me back to Johannesburg for a few months.

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Good Morning South Africa

15 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by EngineerChic in South Africa

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Sorry for the lack of blogging over the last week but I’ve had limited internet access. I had to jump on a plane and head back to Durban and then Greytown, the teeny tiny town I grew up in to sort out some admin. :/

I head back to Cape Town today for my graduation on Saturday! I have a beautiful dress, heels, and a whole weekend of fun planned to celebrate me (finally) getting a degree! I cant wait!

While I was here in Durbs, my mum dragged me out to an event and it ended up being pretty cool. It was a Johnnie Walker whiskey tasting evening at Plush Lounge. Okay, so the club was not really my scene, but I do love my Scotch (in moderation!)

Good news for the morning:
1. Prince Charming has returned to SA from his distant palace and I will see him tomorrow!!
2. I may be in the newspaper, I need to buy the Post today
3. EWB SA: there is a motion in the ocean!

yaay!

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On murder and fear in South Africa

21 Sunday Nov 2010

Posted by EngineerChic in South Africa, Thats Life!

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As I was packing up in Vancouver and getting ready for my long flight home, I heard the news about the brutal and senseless murder of the UK honeymooner, Anni Dewani last week in Cape Town. For a number of reasons, this story, of all bad stories you hear in SA affected me considerably. I thought I’d share some sentiments. For those of you that haven’t been following BBC’s hounding of the story, here it is in a nutshell:
A wealthy newlywed Indian couple from the UK were in Cape Town on their honeymoon. After a day at the wine farms, at around 10 pm, they were heading home in a hired cab when Anni asked the driver to show her some of ‘the real South Africa’. The driver took a detour through Gugulethu township, on the Cape Flats, a dangerous area. They were hijacked by some men who shoved the driver out of the car. A short time later, Mr Dewani was pushed out of the vehicle and the assailants took off with the beautiful, young Anni in the car. Her body was found in the backseat in another area of the Cape Flats afterwards. 
Hearing the news really shocked me at first. I felt terrible for that poor woman, her husband and her family. After the initial shock, came the fear…I suddenly realised that Nyanga, the place that my Engineers Without Borders project is based, is right next to Gugulethu. I realised that I had been to Gugulethu, and often walk around the streets of Philippi and Nyanga working with people and gathering information for the project. I remembered that I often visit people in their humble homes, walking off major roads and into the shantytowns.   I also remembered how fearless I had always been, despite knowing that Nyanga was the worst murder zone in South Africa!
I was suddenly terrified, shaking. Standing alone in an apartment in Vancouver, I struggled to breathe!  I didn’t want to continue my work in Nyanga. I emailed the EWB Chair saying that I couldn’t go back there. Not after this! Why was this story affecting me so badly? Maybe it was because it was a young Indian woman, like me, and that it happened in the areas I so casually wander around…
It was only when I’d calmed down that I considered the facts. People are raped and murdered in that area every day. Nyanga is no more or no less dangerous now than it was last week. The reasons for the violent crime in South Africa are numerous and varied, but all stem from a history of oppression, slavery and violence. Gangs, drugs, violent crime: all products of an amalgamation of displacement, institutionalized poverty, and most of all peoples’ desire for a retribution that never transpired. Are the poorest in this country not still as poor as they were during Apartheid, if not more so? Was the dream of freedom and democracy not tainted with the severe lack of service delivery and corruption from our new government? Did I not already know this? Is this not why I was working in these areas in the first place, trying to put right the wrongs of the past, (a past in which my family also suffered under Apartheid) by engaging and uplifting? Did my parents and godparents not join The Struggle and fight against the evil that plagued their lives? Did I not owe it to them to continue their legacy?
A memory came to mind, one that I still hold as the strongest moment in my time in Nyanga: 
An old man, coming home in his blue overalls. He stops next to our group of multi-cultural UCT students, and shakes each of our hands saying “Touch my blood“, a brotherly term used as a greeting in the area. He thanks us for being there, for venturing out of our false-first-world paradise, for caring enough and not being ashamed to “see the people”.
So I sat in the airport in Vancouver, downing a Scotch and feeling torn between the fear and the love in my heart, the hurt and the passion that drives me back to Nyanga each time…Sure, I never venture into the Flats at night, and never without an escort and well-known translator from the community. Sure I go in groups and take every precaution on the rare occasions that I send members out without me. Sure I trust the people in that community, sure they know me and know what we are trying to achieve. I was always so brave, or was it that I was just naive? My friend L.O. told me (bless him!) “Courage is not doing something in the absence of  fear. Courage is knowing the risks, feeling the fear, and doing it anyway!”
And I guess that pretty much summed it up. I made a decision: I wont run away or turn my back on the work that is so important to me. I wont live in fear in my own country, the only place I call home. I will keep doing developmental work in Africa, because that is what I am the most passionate about, that is what motivates me and that is what I want to devote my life to doing. I will not run off the Australia and Canada or the UK like so many other educated South Africans do, because this is my home, and I want to do whatever I can to make it a better place for my people. 
Ok, so thats the end of my rant. Please read the blog below written by Kevin Bloom. It really is very thoughtful, and is more factual.
A forgotten South African township where only one murder counts

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