Girls are in short supply in technical professions. Girls’ Day was launched with the intention of inspiring female students to get more involved in technology.
DEUTA-WERKE participated for the second time in Girls’ Day.
Jil Wiese, Chiara Korbmacher and Leonie Huckschlag knew what they were doing when they chose Deuta. While Jil was already familiar with the company through her design engineer father who is responsible for the correct dimensions of the terminals, Chiara and Leonie checked out the company website before making their decision.
“We would like to take on girls particularly for our dual education programmes”, says Roswitha Ritter from DEUTA-WERKE’s HR department. “Also at education fairs, girls tend more towards jobs in media. And yet, there are very good prospects for jobs in technology”.
Jil (12), Chiara (14) and Leonie (14) find their Girls’ Day exciting in any case. As yet they have no definite job plans. Jil could imagine working as a design engineer following in her father’s footsteps. Leonie hopes to be able to apply her Russian language skills in a technical environment.
At DEUTA the students learn how the knowledge they gain in their physics lessons is applied in practice. They program and solder for all they are worth. DEUTA employees Ines Meyer and Jens Eggert have devised practical tasks which the girls fulfill with great enthusiasm. Whether one of these girls will later come to work for DEUTA-WERKE will become clear in a few years time.