Only 11% of UK engineers are female - raising this is the logical way to solve our skills gap

Only 11% of UK engineers are female – raising this is the logical way to solve our skills gap

Posted on 28 Jan 2019 by Maddy White

With only 24 percent of UK STEM jobs held by women according to WISE, does Britain need more female role models in order to encourage more young girls into the sector?

If you brought together a cross-section of British adults working in STEM today, the vast majority would still be male. Why does this disparity still exist?

Maddy White spoke to director of calibration development at Cummins UK, Susan Henry, about her 16-years working in industry. UK manufacturing faces a persistent skills shortage, 81% of firms found it difficult to recruit staff in the last quarter of 2018 according to a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce. Yet, little more than one-in-10 engineers…

Only 11% of UK engineers are female – raising this is the logical way to solve our skills gap

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