There’s a nationwide labor scarcity, which largely stemmed in 2021 when greater than 47 million staff give up their jobs. A lot of these job quitters say they left seeking an improved work-life stability, extra flexibility and better pay. And plenty of cited a quest for stronger firm tradition as a cause to maneuver on. Enter: the Girls and Drones awards for the very best drone corporations for feminine staff in 2022.
The Girls in Rising Aviation Applied sciences, which is an awards program put collectively by the Girls and Drones group, acknowledged eight corporations world wide as honorees in its “Prime Corporations for Girls in Rising Aviation Applied sciences.”
For individuals in search of a brand new job with stronger firm tradition, these eight corporations could be those to contemplate. The honorees that had been named the very best drone corporations for feminine staff this 12 months are:
Learn extra concerning the particular person corporations right here.
Corporations, companies and organizations that received had been chosen for being “within the world rising aviation industries that has a tradition the place girls can thrive.” To be eligible for the award, corporations had been nominated by at the least one present worker and needed to have been in enterprise a minimal of 4 years. Nominees had been evaluated based mostly on standards together with:
- Gender variety
- Flexibility in hours and work necessities to accommodate household and life stability
- Aggressive compensation and advantages
- Coaching
- Continued skilled growth
- Profession development alternatives.
The ultimate honorees had been decided by a panel of 4 judges, together with Terreco Aviation CEO Lousie Jupp and Pentium CEO Chantal Khan.
“The skilled alternatives supplied within the dynamic and fast-growing uncrewed aviation area present an thrilling profession path, which we need to see open to individuals from all backgrounds, notably girls,” says Lori DeMatteis, Chief Income Officer, MatrixSpace and honorary world ambassador for the awards, in a ready assertion. “These corporations provide an vital combine {of professional} development in addition to the crucial work/life stability so many people require…(and are) spectacular examples of how this trade can cleared the path in optimistic profession alternatives.”
Lack of variety amongst drone corporations has been cited as a problem within the drone trade. A 2021 diversity-focused survey from Girls and Drones, which was carried out on-line and despatched despatched to individuals working in a wide range of uncrewed plane techniques (UAS) and Superior Air Mobility (AAM) companies and sectors throughout the U.S., discovered that nearly 75% of respondents stated they felt average to excessive concern concerning the lack of variety, fairness, and inclusion within the drone trade basically.
An excellent greater 80% of respondents expressed concern — starting from average to excessive — concerning the lack of variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) in their very own drone-related enterprise or group. And 81% of survey respondents expressed average to excessive curiosity in rising DEI of their corporations.
Abut the Girls in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards
The awards for the very best drone corporations for feminine staff are a part of the broader, annual Girls in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards (previously generally known as the Girls to Watch Awards) that doles out awards in a spread of classes. New to this 12 months’s awards is a Corridor of Fame for ladies who’ve made an outsized affect within the drone trade.
Coincidentally, one of many Corridor of Fame inductees, Anita Sengupta, might be making two journeys to the stage on the awards ceremoy. Her firm, Hydroplane, is without doubt one of the high corporations for ladies.
The entire awards might be given on the reside Girls in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
