One of Ireland’s leading engineering, environmental, surveying, planning and project management consultancies has called for more women to enter formerly male-dominated professions.

White Young Green (WYG), the multi-disciplinary consultant to the built, social and natural environment, said today that while an increasing number of female graduates were being recruited for jobs such as engineers, environmental scientists, surveyors and project managers, there was still room for more women to gain careers in well-paid and rewarding jobs in those fields.


Ray Moore, Group Managing Director for WYG Ireland, said: “We are starting to see an increase in the number of female candidates applying for our graduate jobs, but an imbalance still exists, with women accounting for only a third of our graduate engineers, environmental scientists and quantity surveyors.”

“We want to encourage and develop the best talent possible in our graduate workforce, regardless of gender and that is why we are encouraging both female and male graduates to apply to WYG’s graduate programme this year.”

Andrea Hanna, from Belfast, joined White Young Green as a graduate Mechanical Engineer in June 2004. She said: “From an early age I have always wanted to be an engineer. Now that I’m working in the industry, yes, there are more males than females, but that is changing each year as more graduates come through, and we are starting to catch up.”

(CL)