Women make up around 12% of engineers in the UK, but just over 7% of engineering apprentices are female. To find out more, we spoke to two second year female apprentices at automotive part maker, Unipres.
Second year apprentices at Unipres – image courtesy of Unipres. Although the majority of new apprenticeship starters are now women (51%), female apprentices in manufacturing are outnumbered 14-to-1 by their male peers. “I thought you just made cars in the automotive industry,” says second year engineering apprentice at Unipres, Eden McGlen. “I didn’t realise…
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