Toyota is launching
a new foundation to give women support and opportunities to build careers in
manufacturing.
Toyota Motor Corporation and nine other
Toyota group companies are joining forces to set up the project in Japan.
The initiative represents a practical step
to encourage more active participation by women in the workplace. a theme that
is also being pursued in the UK.
Toyota recognises the valuable contributions
women can make, and considers their greater participation in the field of
technological development will be vital in the creation of ever-better cars and
in achieving sustainable growth. Toyota also realises that in women there is a
huge untapped talent that could help its mission to find more engineers.
The Toyota Female Engineer Development
Foundation will use the experiences of female technology workers to promote the
rewards of this kind of work to high school students thinking about what
university course to follow.
The aim is help increase the number of
female students who choose science and engineering disciplines. The foundation
will also provide continued career development support in order to foster more
science and engineering students and encourage more women to take active roles
not only in the automotive industry, but also in the wider manufacturing
sector.
Toyota Motor Corporation is joined in the
project by Toyota Industries Corporation, Aichi Steel Corporation, JTEKT
Corporation, Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd., Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd., Toyota Boshoku
Corporation, Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc., Toyoda Gosei Co.Ltd. and Toyota
Housing Corporation.
The theme is being pursued in the UK also by
Toyota Manufacturing UK’s activities to promote the take-up by young people –
particularly women.
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