{"id":34317,"date":"2014-07-01T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:14:57","slug":"female-stem-leadership-in-the-energy-sector-which-of-the-big-six-is-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/female-stem-leadership-in-the-energy-sector-which-of-the-big-six-is-leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Female STEM leadership in the energy sector: which of the \u2018Big Six\u2019 is leading the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dr.-Jeane-Rimber-Indy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" alt=\"Dr.-Jeane-Rimber-Indy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dr.-Jeane-Rimber-Indy.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEncouraging more women into STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) roles is a key focus for employers across a number of industries.<\/p>\n<p>Now a new campaign launched by Baroness Verma, a junior minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), has made a call for higher representation of female STEM workers in the energy sector.<br \/>\nLaunching the initiative earlier this month, Verma highlighted that the sector is losing too many of its female employees at the middle-management stage of their careers.<br \/>\nThe initiative helps to work towards restoring the gender balance in the coming years aiming for 30% of executive energy company board members and 40% of energy company middle management to be female by 2030.<br \/>\nIn six months time the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will have to report back to Verma on their progress in realizing greater diversity in their workforces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More women in energy \u2013 EDF leading the way<\/strong><br \/>\nOne energy firm that is already leading the way in increasing the number of women in its workforce, is \u2018Big Six\u2019 energy supplier, EDF.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year, the firm has more than doubled the female proportion of its graduate engineers to 32%. Paul Spence, EDF&#8217;s Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, also outlined that there has been a staggering 190% improvement in the number of female applications. This has led, to among other things, a 14% increase in the proportion of female apprentices to 20%.<br \/>\nOther strides the company has taken to highlight the benefits of a career in the energy sector include the introduction of Energy Day.<br \/>\nOn its launch in 2012, 20 female engineering undergraduates from across the UK participated in the event.<br \/>\nSpeaking about the event\u2019s aims at the time, Janet Hogben, EDF Energy\u2019s Chief People Officer, said: \u201cEnergy Day is a showcase. We want to attract the best people to work for us and we do that by showing what we have to offer and giving people opportunities to talk with us. We want people to find out why these are exciting times at EDF Energy.<br \/>\n\u201cEnergy Day is also about putting engineering back on the map, tackling the gender gap and making people realize that in tough economic times this is an expanding sector that is going to need quality recruits for years to come.\u201d<br \/>\nIf you are searching for talented STEM graduates for your range of roles, Discovery Graduates can help with all stages of the graduate recruitment process including attraction, recruitment and retention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging more women into STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) roles is a key focus for employers across a number of industries. Now a new campaign launched by Baroness Verma, a junior minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), has made a call for higher representation of female STEM workers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}