The future of STEM is female

Posted on 10 Oct 2018 by Maddy White

Yesterday was Ada Lovelace day. This celebrates the achievements of women in STEM careers and was created in memory of one in particular; Ada Lovelace, the first female computer programmer.

In engineering, women make up just 11% of the occupation’s entire UK workforce – image courtesy of Depositphotos. It is no secret that, at present, women play a peripheral role within science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) industries, and this shouldn’t be the case. In engineering for example, women make up…

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