Mpowering Women Through Skill Development
Aramco is an energy and chemicals company with oil and gas production as its primary business.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), women account for only around 22% of the workforce in the energy industry.1 Progress has been made in recent years, but there is still much work to be done.
At Aramco today, we have more women employees and leaders than ever before – from leading engineers in the field to geologists in the lab, and from inventors developing revolutionary processes and technologies to traders selling our oil and refined petroleum products to customers around the world.
Beyond the immediate goal of diversifying our workforce and increasing innovation2, we believe our initiatives to advance the participation of women will help establish positive role-models, inspiring future generations of women to pursue successful careers in the dynamic field of energy.
Empowering Women Through Skill Development of India
Empowering Women Through Skill Developmentis crucial to the nation’s overall development plan as it serves as the nodal initiative for the majority of development and welfare programs in rural areas. The vision and mission are to eradicate poverty in rural India through a multifaceted strategy that includes expanding opportunities for livelihoods, creating social safety nets, and building infrastructure for growth. This is anticipated to enhance rural India’s quality of life and address developmental imbalances, with the goal of assisting the most marginalized groups in society. To achieve these objectives, the Indian government’s allocation of business rules must be followed. The initiative aims at providing livelihood opportunities to those in need, including women and other vulnerable sections, with a focus on Below Poverty Line (BPL) households. It seeks to enhance livelihood security by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household demanding it, provision of all-weather rural connectivity to unconnected rural habitations, and upgradation of existing roads to provide market access. Additionally, it focuses on basic housing and homestead provision for BPL households in rural areas, social assistance to the elderly, widows, and disabled persons, urban amenities in rural areas for improved quality of life, capacity development and training of rural development functionaries, promotion of the involvement of voluntary agencies and individuals in rural development, and restoring the exhausted productivity of the land. Let me know if you’d like any further refinements!
Empowering Women Through Skill Development: A Path to Rural Growth
- Skill Training
- Tuition for Rural/Slum
- Tree Plantation
- Watershed area development
- Environment Awareness Program
- Counselling of School Dropout Students & Their Parents
- Legal Awareness Camps
- Consumer Awareness
- Seminars
- Health Awareness
- Research projects in culture
- Conducting cultural program activities for fundraising
- Awareness generation programs in various fields
- Biodiversity conservation Campaigns against social evils
- Setting up centers for differently abled
- Solving urban and rural housing problems
- Implementing various programs on social forestry, and tree plantation
- Implementing various programs on social forestry, and tree plantation
- Research on global and environmental issues
Categorizing vital materials
Another trailblazer is Dr. Anaam Al-ShaikhAli, who joined R&DC in 2006. Since then our number of female lab scientists has grown exponentially, and Dr. Al-ShaikhAli’s work in the Advanced Analysis Unit of our Technical Services Division is helping to increase our understanding of why different materials show different properties and behaviors.
Through advanced and complementary characterization techniques, including microscopies, spectroscopies and thermal analysis, her team is able to probe and map the surface and sub-surface structure of any soil material to gather information about its structure in nanoscale. This enables the team to develop innovative solutions to solve complex challenges related to oil and gas applications.
