Papers chiefly concerning WISE Year 1984, including:
Calendar of events planned for WISE Year by the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Engineering Council;
Notes on special initiatives taken by some post-school education institutions to provide special training for women;
Press cuttings and flyers;
Notes on ‘Where to go for help with your WISE project’;
Annotated list of publications etc known to the EOC featuring girls in engineering;
Women’s Engineering Society Information Sheet on Careers and Courses;
Brochure on ‘Women in Engineering’ prepared by Dr Susan Bullivant;
‘WISE 1984 – Women into Science and Engineering’, produced by the EOC, giving the background to the project, statistics, and proposals for increasing the percentage of women in science and engineering [the EOC’s main contribution to WISE was to be a major publicity campaign in teachers’ journals and teenage and adult magazines].
The file also contains the following:
Notes on Engineering at Cambridge University and at New Hall circa 1984;
Note of numbers of women first year students in the CU Engineering Department 1970-1979;
Correspondence and papers re Careers Week at the British School of Brussels 1984;
Conference proceedings of ‘Women in Industry, Engineering and Management’, Bradford 1979;
Correspondence and papers re New Hall Schools Liaison conferences 1980, 1983 and 1984.