Since its establishment in 1961, IMESA has never implemented any formal gender policies, the organisation says. It has simply strived to build a professional home for all municipal engineers, where technical excellence, ethics and service to communities are the common ground. Inclusion has followed naturally, and today, more than 30% of IMESA’s members are women. Many of them serve the organisation in leadership roles, including branch chairpersons Roxanne Canny in KwaZulu-Natal, Princesse ...