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Women Educators in Mentoring
Partner from Greece:
Greek Women Engineering Association (EDEM)
4th workshop
Sharing Experience ‘Final Conclusion & Good
Practices’
Athens, 22-23 June 2012
Greek Women Engineering
Association (EDEM)
• Established 1995
• Members: Qualified Greek Women
Engineers (members of the Technical
Chamber of Greece)
• Members ~1500
• Women engineers in Greece ~25000
Greek Women Engineering
Association (EDEM)
Aims
• Promote the principals and create provisions for equality between women and men
in employment, education and society in general.
• Research into problems concerning women engineers and subsequently seek
solutions.
• Co-operate with other organisations (both abroad and in Greece), which are involved
in similar issues.
• Improve terms and conditions for women practising engineering as a profession.
• Encourage community awareness on employment opportunities for women and
mainly of young women in the traditionally male dominated profession of
engineering.
• Develop an information unit to support women engineers concerning employment
opportunities in the labour market, according to specialised qualifications, training
and their professional experience. This will be related to training and development
programs aimed at enhancing women engineers’ chances of employment.
• Encourage and promote activities of women engineers beyond their professional
sphere. These can include: artistic creation, cultural activities and improvement of
quality of life in general.
Greek Women Engineering
Association (EDEM)
Networks:
• WITEC (European Association for Women in Science,
Engineering and Technology)
• EPWS (European Platform of Women Scientists)
• PERIKTIONI (Greek network of women scientists
working in Research Centers and Academia)
• WOMENTOR (European Federation of mentoring for
girls & Women)
Official Greek gender equality
agencies
• The General Secretariat for Gender Equality is the
governmental agency competent to plan, implement, and
monitor the implementation of policies on equality
between women and men in all sectors.
• The Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI), a
Legal Entity under Private Law, was founded in 1994. It
conducts social research on gender equality issues and
implement actions to improve women’s status and enable
their advancement in all areas of political, economic and
social life, within the framework of the policies defined
by the General Secretariat for Equality.
Greek Women Engineering
Association (EDEM)
Recent Projects:
1. Altener -Women And Renewable Energy Sources
2. PREparing Female students for Academic Entrepreneurship (PREFACE)
3. Creating Cultures of Success for Women Engineers (WOMENG)
4. EQUAL Teleworking
5. Tackling Stereotypes: Maximising the Potential of Women in SET
6. EQUAL
7. WOMENG: Successful careers for women engineers
8. Mentoring projects:Win, MELLOW, Womentor, Womentor II, We:Mentor
New Project (1st June 2012):
Women declare their role in the Environment Protection – Gender &
Environment
Greek Women Engineering
Association (EDEM)
Mentoring projects:
• Mellow: Life long Mentoring of Women in and/or
towards technical jobs.
• Win: Women in Network
• WOMENTOR: European Federation of Mentoring
for girls & Women
• WOMENTOR II
• We:Mentor –Women Educators in Mentoring
(Sharing Experience)
Mentor-Mentee-Mentoring
In Greek mythology, Mentor
(Μέντωρ / Méntτr) was in his
old age, a friend of Odysseus.
When Odysseus left for the
Trojan War he placed Mentor
in charge of Telemachus, his
son, and of his palace. Mentor
was very old and tired man
when Telemachus gets adult so
Goddess Athena takes his face
and advise Telemachus how to
act to keep safe his father’s
authority.
Mentor-Mentee-Mentoring
This is the source of the modern use of the word
mentor:
A trusted friend, counsellor or teacher, usually a
more experienced person.
Today mentors provide their expertise to less
experienced individuals (mentees) in order to help
them advance their careers, enhance their
education, and build their networks.
Mentoring: The process of change and growth
brought about by the interaction of two people,
D. Clutterbuck and D. Megginson
EDEM’s experience
• Mentors have not only to be successful professionals, they
must be willing to devote time to the mentee and enter the
way of thinking of young people.
• Mentees have to understand that mentor is not the person
to find them a job or solve all their problems.
• Both have to devote time to know each other and the talk
sincerely.
• Mentee and mentor will gain self confidence after the
meetings and became more conscious of their role in the
society.
EDEM’s experience
• Greek society needs special actions to fight
stereotypes and help girls and young women to
draw a career according their talents and
qualifications
• Mentoring is in the beginning in Greece
• Girls and young women do not know where to
find someone to act like a mentor for them
• Experienced women in general they are nor
conscious about the role they can play in the
society
EDEM’s experience
• Girls and young women do not know where to ask
for advice and support
• They cannot find easily an experienced woman in
their sector/discipline to address
• They do not know how to take benefit of an
experienced woman who wants to act like a
mentor for them
• Sometimes they confuse the mentoring process
with ‘admitting incapability’:
‘women are tough enough to fight with men’s rules’
We: Mentor -EDEM’s part
•Participation at the Sharing Experience Workshops (1st, 2nd, 3rd,
12trips, 10 women, 3 of them <30years).
•Hosting the 4th Workshop in Athens, June 22-23 2012.
• Dissemination of the project results so far : articles in websites in
English and in Greek and via e-mail (table 1). Also facebook and
linkedIn.
•Future Dissemination of the Final conclusions and Good
Practices: articles in websites in English and in Greek and via email (table1), presentations in Conferences, CD with ‘Final
conclusions and Good Practices’ and additional material from the
workshops.
Mentoring in the Future
EDEM wants to :
• create a pilot group of mentors and mentees to act
like a cell for the promotion of mentoring process in
schools, universities and in the professional market.
•create a list of mentors for different professions to
address young women when they ask for help/advice.
•Implement the experience shared during this project and the ‘Final
Conclusions and Good practices’ in the new project ‘Women declare
their role in the Environment Protection – Gender & Environment’.
This project requires mentoring (coaching-counselling) for :
•Women Engineers to turn their carreers in the new Environmental
fields of Engineering and
•School girls (1-2 years before final exams) to be open minded in
choosing their studies and not exclude Engineering and especially
environmental fields due to ignorance or professional and social
stereotypes.