Naturally contemplated to be curious and brilliant humans, women have been bringing their skills to the table. Over the years, breaking stereotypes and pursuing their dreams, they have made ground-breaking discoveries in their fields. But somehow the world still doesn’t look them at them as strong parts of the economy. Though women make up half of the workforce, they are frequently underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. According to the Society of Women Engineers, the percentage of women among the engineering qualifying graduates is 20 percent, while only 11 percent of the them show up as Engineering professionals in the job sector. However, as a new generation of promising Women graduates in Engineering get ready to domineer the workplace opening up to the challenges put forth, there’s expected to be slow but significant growth in these numbers.

Unlike twentieth century, where the omnipresent engineering sector had primarily three disciplines- Civil, electrical, and mechanical, today the sector encompasses many more specializations such as computer engineering, software engineering, and computer science. Many women have successful careers in the computer science and software engineering disciplines. Having played a crucial role in developing many of today’s technologies like smartphones and medical devices to aircrafts and satellites, they have noteworthily inspired the next generation of female Engineers. Many early female engineers became technical educators.

Not only this, several CEG graduates have also became principals of women’s polytechnics and also principals of architecture colleges. Right from Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Engineering at Twitter, to Muthumari S, Director- Data Science at Brillio, to Anu Mangaly, Principal Engineer at NetApp India, to Komal Mangtani, Head of Data intelligence at Uber, and many more, the list keeps adding on. In India, the number of Women in Engineering is comparatively better with nearly 43 percent of the total graduates in STEM being women. India is one of the few countries in the world, to create the highest number of scientists and engineers as increase in STEM have picked up in the recent years. Conclusively, the future looks bright for Indian women in engineering today.

In this issue, the Women Entrepreneur magazine brings in to spotlight a list of 'Top 10 Women in Engineering - 2022'. The list has been crafted by a team of, CEOs, VCs and our editorial board, thus delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of a powerful nation.