About Us

SUWIE was established in 2003 and became officially affiliated with the University of Sydney Union in 2004. The organisation exists to help assist women students within the engineering faculty. It creates a space where women are able to organise and network that is seperate from the typical setting of the engineering classroom, where a disproportionate balance of gender is often present.

This issue needs to be recognised and addressed.

Why is it that women are outnumbered by men, 1:8, in undergraduate enrolment in engineering at Sydney University?

Why are there far fewer women in the engineering profession and in the university's faculty academia?

SUWIE seeks to develop a counter-discourse which pursues answers for these questions.