Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham was an engineer, a campaigner for women's employment rights and a founder member of the Women's Engineering Society.
Margaret Rowbotham (left) with Tilly Shilling and Margaret Partridge in 1934
Women's Engineering Society
The Women's Engineering Society is a United Kingdom professional learned society and networking body for women engineers, scientists and technologists. It was the first professional body set up for women working in all areas of engineering, predating the Society of Women Engineers by around 30 years.
Elizabeth Donnelly, WES CEO, on the occasion of the unveiling of a Tunnel Boring Machine named after WES founder Rachel Parsons