VicRoads promotes women to traditionally male-dominated roles

VICROADS is promoting women at record levels with the agency quadrupling the amount of females in traditionally male-dominated roles over the past 20 years.

VICROADS is promoting women at record levels.

The road agency is celebrating the number of women who have risen through the ranks after quadrupling the amount of females in traditionally male-dominated roles over the past 20 years.

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Woman have been increasingly hired as engineers, planners, environmental experts and road services workers, advancing from 20 roles in 1998 to 139 roles in 2017.

The group is celebrating its gender equality progress to ­coincide with today’s International Women’s Day.

VicRoads streamlining Hoddle St operations manager Catherine Gunn, acting deputy chief executive Robyn Seymour, senior projects engineer Matilda Tonkin, director of operations Fatima Mohamed and manager of project delivery Thanasinh Boupha.

VicRoads Executive Director of Access and Operations Anita Curnow said there were many women now leading major initiatives like the M80 Upgrade and the Hoddle St project.

“We’ve got women in roles right across the organisation working as engineers, in project management and operations but certainly we want to see more women in these positions,” she said.

“By 2022, we’re aiming for 50 per cent of our senior leaders to be female.”