Engineering changes the world
Release date:
23 June 2022
In honor of International Women in Engineering Day, bp's Aleida Rios, senior vice president of engineering, and Starlee Sykes, senior vice president of Gulf of Mexico & Canada, sat down with Mark Crawford, head of diversity, equity & inclusion, for a discussion about their respective career journeys, the challenges they’ve faced, and what they’d tell girls who are considering a career in the industry
International Women in Engineering Day began in the UK in 2014 as part of a national campaign to give women engineers a higher profile across the globe. It’s a day to recognize the achievements and impact of female engineers worldwide. While women represent 48% of the workforce overall, they only make up 22% of the workforce in the energy sector – and only 16.5% of engineers worldwide are women.
“It starts with that little girl wanting to be an engineer. I was that little girl and it took somebody looking like me for me to believe I could be an engineer.”
Aleida Rios, senior vice president of engineering, bp
