Women engineers hold key leadership roles at Chennai Metrowater
For the first time since its inception, the water agency has women in posts including engineering directors and chief engineers.
Chennai Metrowater has appointed women to key leadership positions, including engineering directors and chief engineers, for the first time since the agency began operations, according to The Hindu.
Women currently account for 56 per cent of the water agency’s workforce, which includes 218 women engineers.
Engineering director O. Parveez, who joined as an assistant engineer in 1991, is currently working with a five-member, all-women chief engineers’ team.
The agency's first woman assistant executive engineer joined in 1987, and the number of women in the workforce has grown steadily since then.
Chief engineer (Project-I) A. Pushpalatha said that women have proved themselves in every aspect of the job and that commitment and ability to deliver matter more than gender.
H.S. Kalyani will succeed Pushpalatha, who has retired from her position.