Mon, May 09, 2011
We remain amazed, year after year, with the indomitable spirit
we see in various segments of the aviation business... and the
women of AWAM are some of our favorites. AWAM is open to both men
and women and has membership opportunities for students, and
corporations. Their membership consists of maintenance technicians,
engineers, teachers, scientists, vendors and pilots that support
maintenance in one form or another.
The organization's goal is to help women in the aviation
maintenance related fields and find ways to network and support
each other in this field. AWAM's ties to the Women in Aviation
Conference run deep. T
he organizational meeting was held at the WAI conference in
1996, and the founding board members and officers were elected at
the Dallas WAI conference the following year. According to the FAA,
women account for only 2.13 percent of all non-pilot aviation jobs
in the US.
AWAM Vice President, Lynette Ashland, attributes lack of
outreach as one of the major reasons more women don't pursue
maintenance or other technical fields. To fill that lack, AWAM
provides a speaker's network where those who are interested in
promoting women in maintenance can engage a speaker or offer their
services as one.
Members are also offered free job listings, subscriptions to
periodicals, discounts from certain vendors, invitations to AWAM
sponsored events, an electronic newsletter, and the online forum
and chatroom, which is currently open to the public. Ashland states
that AWAM also specializes in assisting female maintenance
technicians getting out of the military in finding jobs in civilian
aviation.
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