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Morley Muse is an Australian renewable energy engineer, and co-founder of iSTEM, a social enterprise supporting women in STEM into STEM education, employment, leadership and entrepreneurship.
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It’s incredible to see companies like Arup, Westpac, Telstra, and Worley already embracing this platform to recruit diverse talents.
As a woman from a minority background working in STEM, I have faced personal and professional challenges, whilst in pursuit of my career aspirations.
Considering the current STEM skills shortage.
If I can’t fix it, I don’t talk about it.
That showed only 29 percent of the STEM workforce identifies as women and 56 percent of university educated women in STEM were born overseas.
I thought that was a fundamental problem.”
Through my work with WISE and WISA, I gained a deeper understanding of the barriers women in STEM face.
What was more interesting was that 56 per cent of university qualified females in STEM in Australia are Australian women born overseas.
I was appointed to the board as a director in 2019 which I still serve to date.
The underrepresentation of female engineering students led me to co-found the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Club at Victoria University.
My leadership journey in advocating for the diversity of women in the industry began during my PhD, when I realised the difficulties of being a woman in a male dominated field.
I began engagements with Women in STEMM Australia (WISA), in 2018.
WISA has created a diverse, inclusive network of STEMM professionals at all levels of academia, industry, education, business and government and includes all women in STEMM regardless of their discipline and profession.
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