Scope

EWLSE's scope is to broaden awareness of the current state of women in leadership, remove obstacles for women seeking engineering related leadership roles, collaborate with professional societies, industry, government, academia, and individual advocates, and celebrate the benefits of diversity throughout our culture. Ultimately, we want to integrate efforts to raise international awareness of the value of women leaders in engineering and systems engineering; develop and promote successful strategies for women navigating the systems engineering leadership journey across cultures, geographic locations, and domains; and drive the evolution to an open welcoming professional environment where institutions stimulate motivated and qualified applicants to seek leadership opportunities in systems engineering. What success looks like:

• The systems engineering environment is open to all:
  1. Boundaries and partitions that limit success are removed.
  2. Women are and know they can aspire to be leaders in systems engineering.
• All systems engineers are highly valued: ?
  1. Diverse leadership styles are respected and included.
  2. Systems engineering leadership reflects the community.
• Women and engineering go hand-in-hand:
  1. At least half of graduating engineers are women.
  2. Female engineering graduates choose an engineering career.
  3. Women and men equally share technical leadership.
• We collaborate as equals:
  1. Women and men have a seat at the table.
  2. Cross-cultural collaboration is the norm.
  3. 3. We work together across domains to build a solution for all.
• 5. Mentors and enablers are part of the culture:
1. Only knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitude matter.
2. There is engagement at all levels of education. 
3. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to the foundation of systems engineering.