Victoria Fitzgerald on a factory's Page 3 shrine and the future of women in the UK manufacturing sector.
In the UK, 8.7% of engineering professionals are women, 17.3% less than Sweden and 20.3% less than Bulgaria. In the UK school-aged girls are less likely to study STEM subjects than humanities at GCSE and this trend continues through A-level. Usually these subjects are a prerequisite for studying engineering at university or embarking on an apprenticeship in…
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