How role models inspire girls for technical professions

Why are there actually typical male and female professions?

This question was asked by fifth graders Nora and Hannah from Freudenstadt while they were working focused at a workbench in the training workshop of the fischer group of companies. Using a saw, drill, and file, they made a feeding station for birds out of wood and metal – and discovered how exciting technical professions can be.

The Girls'Day at fischer shows anew every year: technology knows no gender. What matters are curiosity, interest, and one’s own abilities.

Nora was enthusiastic about the craftsmen in the training workshop of the fischer group of companies.

Girls'Day: Experience Technology Instead of Just Talking About It

The nationwide Girls'Day offers girls the opportunity to get to know professions in which women have been underrepresented so far. The fischer group of companies also opens its doors on this day and invites female students to experience technical training professions up close.

Instead of just watching, the participants get hands-on: they drill, saw, file, solder, and construct. In doing so, they gain practical experience and insights into the everyday work of technical professions.
These direct experiences in particular help to overcome apprehensions and discover new career perspectives.

The fifth-grade students Hannah (left) and Nora (right) have found a new role model in the aspiring industrial mechanic Hanna Eberhardt (middle).

Technical professions offer opportunities – for everyone

For twelve-year-old Jarla, Girls'Day was much more than an exciting practical day. She took away an important insight: „Everyone should pursue the profession that best matches their own abilities and makes them happy. Regardless of whether they are male or female.“ This sums up what really matters when choosing a career: not gender roles, but talents and interests should be decisive. At the same time, she recognized an important factor for more equal opportunities: „Certainly, more women would apply for typical male professions if there were more female role models in these fields.“

Emely Woiczikowski showed Jarla in the fischer training workshop how to safely handle the drill and other tools.

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This is exactly where the fischer corporate group comes in. Female trainees play an important role as ambassadors for technical professions.

On Girls' Day, aspiring industrial mechanics like Hanna Eberhardt and Emely Woiczikowski demonstrate to the students the safe handling of tools such as pliers, soldering irons, and drills. On an equal footing, they convey not only technical knowledge but also self-confidence.

22 girls came to the fischer group of companies on the occasion of Girls’ Day. The aspiring technical product designer Lara-Sophia Möhrle (front left) and the aspiring industrial mechanic Emely Woiczikowski (front right) organized the day.