Female Founders Stories

According to the Congressional joint economic committee of the US, only 14% of all engineering professionals are women. The minuscule number remains a concern since women started joining the engineering field as early as the mid-1800s. Though the number is rising now, women in STEM fields, i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, still face a bias. From birth, we tend to condition children towards certain professions depending on their gender. The gender bias leads to the suppression of a vast number of women with tremendous potential, who could be achievers in engineering. It is interesting to know about a few female engineers who emerged first in their respective fields.  WomELLE   salutes these women for paving a way for more women from subsequent generations. Edith Clarke – First Woman Electrical Engineer Clarke, born in 1883, holds the distinction of being the first female electrical engineer in the United States. Clarke’s parents passed away when she was only twelve. But