Atkins Success through Women in Transportation featured on the Women in Transportation website – As one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies, Atkins focuses primarily in three areas: transportation, infrastructure, and energy. Transportation (highways, rail, aviation and ports) is Atkins’ largest market in North America, and they believe that their ability to deliver the complex solutions required to solve the U.S.’s looming infrastructure crisis requires the engagement of all of the country’s brightest minds—not just 50 percent of the population.

Atkins knows that women in transportation and STEM fields are critical to meeting present and future challenges and—in the big picture—provide a more balanced, diverse workforce that benefits the company as a whole. This includes women in leadership roles. New research from The Peterson Institute for International Economics reveals a six percent increase to a company’s net margin when at least 30 percent of their leaders are female. But how does the needle get moved in engineering and transportation professions that are predominantly male?

One of Atkins’ mottos is “small steps, giant leaps.” Which means, to achieve real change, you need to first understand the issues, then focus your efforts on the incremental steps that move you toward the goal.

A few years ago, Atkins’ colleagues in the UK partnered with the Royal Academy of Engineering, BP, and Rolls Royce to conduct a survey on women in engineering.² While much data was available about the deficit of females in STEM subjects, none of the previous surveys asked female engineers why they chose engineering and if they were fulfilled by their career choice.

Read full article >> https://www.wtsinternational.org/success-through-women-in-transportation/

Sources: Feature Photo: USDOT; Article: WIS (Women in Transportation)