{"id":629,"date":"2015-06-25T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:28:16","slug":"regional-meeting-and-womens-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/2015\/06\/25\/regional-meeting-and-womens-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Meeting and Women&#8217;s Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Meeting of SI London Chilterns took place in St Albans on Saturday 20th June when several members of SI Slough attended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forced Marriage <\/strong>was the topic for the morning \u2013 with keynote speaker<strong> Aneeta Prem<\/strong>, founder of the<strong> Freedom Charity\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomcharity.org.uk\/\">www.freedomcharity.org.uk<\/a> The charity works to empower young people to feel they have the tools, confidence and support around the issues of family\u00a0relationships which can lead to early and forced marriage and dishonour based violence. Aneeta has been on\u00a0national TV recently covering these important human rights issues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-630 \" src=\"\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb\" width=\"332\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">Women and Engineering\u00a0was the topic for the afternoon\u00a0\u2013 Vanessa Diaz, Women\u2019s Engineering Society(WES)\u00a0Council member and an Engineer working in Medical Research <\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/81-SILC20JackiePalingRitaPaulineVanessaDiazWESWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/81-SILC20JackiePalingRitaPaulineVanessaDiazWESWeb-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"81-SILC20JackiePalingRitaPaulineVanessaDiazWESWeb\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb.jpg\">gave us a fascinating and highly energetic insight to her work \u2013 she is like a human dynamo! It is National Women in Engineering Day on 23 June<\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wes.org.uk\/nwed\">www.wes.org.uk\/nwed<\/a><\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb.jpg\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0 \u2013<\/span> \u00a0<\/a><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/NWED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2315 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/NWED-e1435145603322.jpg\" alt=\"NWED\" width=\"200\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a>Vanessa talked about the shockingly few women engineers we have in the UK (8.7% of engineers are women which is the lowest in the world). WES (based in Stevenage) works to promote women in engineering including outreach with schools to encouraging more girls to take up exciting careers in Engineering. <\/span><a href=\"\/slough-windsor-and-maidenhead\/files\/2015\/06\/80-SILC20JuneFreedomAudienceBooksWideWeb.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Jackie Paling, a Chemical Engineer and another inspirational Soroptimist was also at the meeting. Jackie has been a member of WES for 40 years and gave a brilliant vote of thanks to Vanessa which included telling us about some of her own challenges in overcoming barriers to become an engineer in the first place. Jackie has been ill recently and she challenged herself again to be with us \u2013 saying \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have missed it for the world\u201d \u2013 and we wouldn\u2019t have wanted to miss having Jackie with us either! In the picture above L to R are Jackie Paling, Rita Beaumont and Pauline Panter (joint Regional Presidents) and Vanessa Diaz.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Meeting of SI London Chilterns took place in St Albans on Saturday 20th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Regional Meeting and Women&#039;s Conference | News | Blog | Events | SI Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead : Blog &amp; News : Regional Meeting and Women&#039;s Conference : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead . 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