{"id":4720,"date":"2023-03-07T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:23:43","slug":"march-2023-speaker-women-in-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/2023\/03\/07\/march-2023-speaker-women-in-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2023 Speaker &#8211; Women in Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our speaker in March was Emma Lowe, who spoke about Women in Rail, to members.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Emma Lowe, Operations Professional Development Manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/\">Network Rail<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>An occupational psychologist with 30 years of professional railway experience.\u00a0 Emma worked predominantly in the field of human factors, but also in safety, competence management, training and leadership development.<\/p>\n<p>For the last 10 years, she has led on initiatives to integrate non-technical skills into competence and training arrangements, focusing on frontline operational staff.<\/p>\n<h4>Male Dominated Industry<\/h4>\n<p>Emma started her career with Network Rail (previously Rail Track) after a three-week temping job. Safety was a fascinating subject and she got the Railway bug, building her career in safety training. When she began her career, very few women were in the Railway industry.<\/p>\n<h4>Human Factors<\/h4>\n<p>Covering a wide variety of interesting aspects of the railway and its training needs, Emma captivated her audience, including answering questions from members. Emma explained how Network Rail supports drivers when someone decides to end their life by jumping in front of a train.\u00a0 The support and peer support that is encouraged, allows drivers to deal with the trauma of such an event.<\/p>\n<p>Thought-provoking was the statement that alongside training, the industry aims to &#8216;design out&#8217; potentiality for mistakes and the probability of error, so it isn&#8217;t just human factors that are relied on for safety.\u00a0 Training has been designed to be interactive and table-top exercises prepare staff before an event happens, by simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Facing Point is a podcast that Emma promoted, it talks about all things rail <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/facing-points\">Facing Points \u2022 A podcast on Anchor<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Improving Female Representation<\/h4>\n<p>This balance of male\/female workers is now changing, with the 20 in 20 aim that was almost achieved (19%).\u00a0 20% female workforce by 2020.\u00a0 The new goals are 26% with 30% of those in leadership roles.<\/p>\n<h4>Men as Allies to Women in Rail<\/h4>\n<p>Emma feels that the industry is changing as men also support the gender balance of women and men, citing the Men as Allies campaign within the industry.\u00a0 Men are supporting gender equality.\u00a0 Women no longer have to pretend to be men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>1851<\/b>: 3 women were listed as railway workers<\/li>\n<li><b>WW1<\/b>: the proportion of women in rail increased from 2 to 66%with 66,000 women working by the end of the war<\/li>\n<li><b>1918: <\/b>Only 200 women were left working in rail<\/li>\n<li><b>WW2<\/b>: National conscription of women. 105, 000 employed as part of the war effort<\/li>\n<li><b>1978<\/b>: Karen Harrison became the first woman train driver\u2019s assistant<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012:<\/strong> Women in Rail charity founded<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014:<\/strong> &#8216;Inspire&#8217; employee gender equality network formed<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> 20 by 20 announced<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020:<\/strong> 19% women. 26% target set for 2024, with 30% in leadership roles<\/li>\n<li><b>2021:<\/b> \u00a0 Network Rail is amongst The Time Top 50 Employers for Women<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021:<\/strong> Gender pay gap report\u00a0 details a pay gap of 12.9% which is lower than the UK pay gap of 15.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our speaker in March was Emma Lowe, who spoke about Women in Rail, to members&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,39,10],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-emma-lowe","tag-rail","tag-speaker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>March 2023 Speaker - Women in Rail | News | Blog | Events | SI Hertford and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Hertford and District : Blog &amp; News : March 2023 Speaker - Women in Rail : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Hertford and District . 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