The Woman Engineer Journal
The Woman Engineer is the journal of the Women's Engineering Society. The journal has been produced quarterly since 1919 and a complete set can be accessed at the IET Archives.
The journal is an important tool for research as it contains a wealth of information regarding not only women in engineering but also a wide variety of information on social history, gender studies and innovation in the UK since 1919.
The early journals also contain technical papers by female engineers and the journal's first editor was Dame Caroline Haslett.
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The Woman Engineer fulfils the stated aim of the WES 'to enable technical women to meet and to facilitate the exchange of ideas respecting the interests, training and employment of technical women and the publication and communication of information on such subjects'.
As a result of a project in 2015 and a variety of donations to the WES, all previous volumes of the journal have been digitised to allow future generations to access these important records. Every volume of the journal from 1919-2014 has been scanned and can be fully searched by keyword or browsed using page-turning technology.
The complete digitised set of The Woman Engineer 1919 - 2014
A PDF index of the women named in the digitised volumes of The Woman Engineer is available below, with thanks to Dr Nina Baker.
Mrs Westcott, marine engineer, on the cover of The Woman Engineer journal, March 1922
- Volume 1 1919 - 1924
- Volume 2 1924 - 1929
- Volume 3 1929 - 1934
- Volume 4 1934 - 1939
- Volume 5 1939 - 1944
- Volume 6 1944 - 1951
- Volume 7 1951 - 1956
- Volume 8 1956 - 1961
- Volume 9 1961 - 1966
- Volume 10 1966 - 1971
- Volume 11 1971 - 1976
- Volume 12 1976 - 1982
- Volume 13 1982 - 1987
- Volume 14 1987 - 1993
- Volume 15 1993 - 1998
- Volume 16 1998 - 2003
- Volume 17 2003 - 2008
- Volume 18 2008 - 2014
Using The Woman Engineer Journal
Please note the following:
- The downloading of material for private research only from this digitised version of The Woman Engineer is permitted.
- The downloading of material for use in the public domain from this digitised version of The Woman Engineer is permitted free of charge provided that a credit is given to ‘Women's Engineering Society and the IET Archives’. In addition to the credit line please complete a reproduction request form. This can be obtained by contacting the IET Archives.
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