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Marie-Solange is the director of the land and naval sector within Optronics and Missile Electronics at Thales. Appointed to the job in September 2021, the 37-year old found herself at the helm of a team that, apart from one other young woman, consists exclusively of men over the age of 50 who “have daughters my age!” She smiles. “It was my youth that surprised them rather than my gender,” she remarks…
It's been 35 years since engineer, rock-climber and musician Helen started working for British Aerospace but she still seems as excited by her job as she was as a young mathematics and physics graduate from Bristol University in 1985…
Women senior executives in defence industries are rare, but even more exceptional in missiles, generally seen as “toys for boys.” But there are a few exceptions and Eva, with her passion for technology and her mathematical brain, is one of them…
Véronique is one of the very few senior women executives in the male-dominated world of missiles. But she has hit the proverbial glass ceiling. The head of defence systems business development of the European missile manufacturer MBDA, she notes that she's “been at the same hierarchical level for almost 20 years,” and regrets that no woman is on the executive committee…
