The document discusses challenges and opportunities for women engineers, highlighting examples of pioneering women in technology and innovation throughout history, such as Bette Nesmith Graham who invented Liquid Paper and Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar. It emphasizes the importance of women having equal access to leadership and decision-making positions. Finally, it provides advice for women engineers to build credibility through risk-taking, developing networks, pursuing excellence, and having self-belief.

1. Women Engineers:
Hopes and Promises
Swapna Sundar
CEO
IP DOME – IP Strategy Advisors

2. Women Engineers:
Hopes and Promises
Visions and Decisions
Swapna Sundar
CEO
IP DOME – IP Strategy Advisors

3. DECISION MAKING
• women's equal
access to and full
participation in
power structures
and decision-
making
• women's capacity
to participate in
decision-making
and leadership.

4. Bette Nesmith Graham
In 1950 put tempera water-based paint in a bottle
and used that to correct her mistakes.
Graham secretly used her white correction paint for
five years, making some improvements with help
from her son's chemistry teacher. She marketed her
typewriter correction fluid as "Mistake Out" in 1956.
The name was later changed to Liquid Paper. In 1979
she sold Liquid Paper to the Gillette Corporation for
USD $47.5 million. At the time, her company
employed 200 people and made 25 million bottles
of Liquid Paper per year.

5. Stephanie Kwolek
Invented Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide –
branded Kevlar. In 1964, Du Pont was searching for
a new lightweight strong fiber to use for light but
strong tires. The solution was "cloudy, opalescent
upon being stirred, and of low viscosity" and
usually was thrown away. However, Kwolek
persuaded the technician, Charles Smullen, who
ran the "spinneret", to test her solution, and was
amazed to find that the fiber did not break, unlike
nylon. Also discovered the new field of polymer
chemistry quickly arose.
Kevlar® is used to make body armour…
lightweight and extraordinarily strong, with five
times the strength of steel on an equal-weight
basis.

6. Chandralekha

7. Lynndie England

8. BOLD
(of a person, action, or idea) Showing an ability
to take risks; confident and courageous.
Taslima Nasreen: Bangladeshi
novelist. Portrays the condition of
women in the Muslim as well as in a
larger society through her books
Lajja (Shame) and Amar Meyebela
(My Girlhood) among others.

9. Only 2 ways of increasing the output of the economy:
(1) you can increase the number of inputs that go into
the productive process, or
(2) if you are clever, you can think of new ways in
which you can get more output from the same number of
inputs.
Abramovitz in 1950 discovered that measured growth of inputs
(i.e., in capital and labor) between 1870 and 1950 could only
account for about 15% of the actual growth in the output of
the economy .
Robert Solow in 1956 won the Nobel Prize for his model of
growth which showed that ¾ of the output per worker in the
US could be attributed to technical progress
(c) swapna sundar, IP Dome 2013

10. March 12, 2013 (c) Swapna Sundar 2011

11. Women in Technology
Kenyan-born Ory Okolloh co-founder of Ushahidi, a
revolutionary crowd sourcing utility that enables
citizen journalists and eyewitnesses all over the
world to report incidences of violence through the
web, mobile E-mail, SMS, and Twitter. She became
Google’s policy manager for Africa and is one of the
most influential women in global technology.
Isis Nyongo is the Vice President and Managing
Director of InMobi, the world’s largest independent
mobile advertising network.

12. Who are you?
…received an engineering
degree from Mailam
Engineering College, Tamil
Nadu, India and… became the…
? and is today one of the most
important woman in Technology
globally.

13. Building credibility: go pro!
create a reputation as being a
strong and confident woman
take educated risks.
risk-takers are seen as managers
and leaders willing to accept
responsibility for taking chances.
care deeply about their companies and their job performance, and
they bring energy to their work that few can match

14. Build and maintain networks

15. Excellence

16. Self belief

17. Focused: Lenise Bent
DreamWorks sound engineer and
instructor in recording and post-production
Do something because you love it, not for recognition.
I tell myself, "I'm not a successful woman engineer; I'm a
successful engineer who is also a woman."
I used to dress asexually and wore my glasses so the studio
would know I was serious. Experience was most important;
I made myself an asset to the project by anticipating what
was needed, taking initiative and being fun to be around.

18. Be what you want to become

19. Keep in touch!