We are Dipalee Jukes, Era Shah and Malika Kapasi and we are all inextricably linked by being female, south asian engineers. We all work in the UK construction industry and up until recently, we felt like complete outliers in our professions. Reason being, we quite literally couldn’t see other people who looked like us at work. When the three of us met for the first time at London Build 2021, we instantly connected and had a shared passion and purpose to use our platforms to serve other women. Fast forward several months, a podcast was born, combining our love of engineering, female leadership and allyship, the power of role models, our cultural heritage and our genuine love of tea! The aim of this podcast is to highlight and bring awareness to the current lack of minority ethnic female engineers in the Engineering and Construction industry in the UK. We want this podcast to raise the profile of the amazing women engineers out there in our communities to create more role models young girls and women can aspire to. We believe this starts with changing perceptions of what an engineer looks like.This podcast will share insights and back stories from different guests, all of whom are women from diverse backgrounds, working in the UK Construction Industry. We will deep dive into their upbringings, their challenges, their ambitions for the future, all told from their perspectives. Our worlds might look the same from the outside, but our journeys to get here are all so very different. This is the Chai & Chat Engineering podcast.Music Credit:Zurna (Instrumental) by Sapajou | https://soundcloud.com/sapajoubeatsCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_USMusic promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.