New project aims to increase number of women in offshore wind sector

The UK’s Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) want to improve the gender balance in offshore wind through a two-step framework. Currently, women only make up 18% of employees across the sector.
Photo: Marcus Emil Christensen
Photo: Marcus Emil Christensen
by jens stavnsbjerg, translated by jonas sahl hollænder

If you are a service employee working at an offshore wind farm, an engineer trying to optimize turbine blades, an administrative manager in a sales department or an executive further up the ladder at a project development firm, you are far more likely to be a man than a woman.

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