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GetSET Women Blog June 2009

Each fortnight a different woman describes her choice of career on our blog.
It is a fascinating snapshot of women who are in a minority - inventors, experimenters, engineers, technicians, scientists, researchers and more.

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Bringing water and sanitation to slums

Posted 24th June 2009 by Priti Parikh

My  father is a structural engineer. When I was eight, the whole family moved  to India, where he designed water and sanitation for all the slums in Indore city. That was the start of my interest in engineering: I saw that it was not just…


Engineering, education, acoustic emission and speed

Posted 12th June 2009 by Karen Holford

I was into speed early! My dad had a garage. I was the third of his four daughters - he hoped for a child who’d share his interests in cars and football! He took us to Silverstone, I helped in the garage: engineering was in my blood. Right…