Today is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is Balance for Better. This topic certainly resonates with the UK manufacturing industry which, although improving, still has a stark gender imbalance.
Only 24% of UK STEM jobs are held by women according to campaign group WISE, and within UK engineering for example, only around 11% of engineers are female. Women play a peripheral role within science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) industries, and this shouldn’t be the case. Women in manufacturing “I grew up in a…
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