Celebrating the engineering heroes of the pandemic

摘要

Derived from the Greek word heros, "hero" literally means "protector" or "defender". In Greek mythology Hero was a woman, so the Women's Engineering Society (WES) saw no need to feminise an already feminine word. The major role that women engineers around the world have played in 2020-21 in protecting and defending us from the pandemic needs to be celebrated. For example, virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale delivered India's first testing kit in a record six weeks, submitting the kit for evaluation the day after she gave birth.1