[3] She attended the North London Collegiate School[4] and was inspired to become a civil engineer through, in her own words, "a trip up the newly-opened M1 motorway when I was 10.
"[5] She studied civil engineering at the University of Birmingham, obtained chartered status,[4] and has worked on engineering projects including the Channel Tunnel, motorways, a theme park, a shopping centre, aircraft hangar and oil refinery.
In an interview conducted by the Daily Telegraph,[1] she shared her experience and asserted that in a wide range of countries, women were not being promoted to senior positions in engineering to the same extent as men.
However, despite saying that "I am conscious that I have a responsibility to break down inappropriate barriers which prevent women engineers from making progress,"[2] she is not in favour of positive discrimination, believing that it could lead to a lowering of standards.
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