Latest stats (to Q3.18) show just one in five tech apprenticeship starters were female – on the face of it, a marginal improvement on 2017 (18% for the full year) – but still way below all other subject areas bar engineering and construction!
I am not going to make a call on that one but whilst the latest applications data from UCAS (released today) show some improvement over the past five years in the proportion of applicants (UK domiciled) for Computer Science courses that were female, the gender balance is still below the peak (from data available) experienced in 2010. Moreover, the chart below is just to illustrate the relative change (i.e. indexed)… Read More »Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?
Correlation versus causation – I run into this issue most days when analysing stats but I quite liked this one as it is a good example – when comparing the levels of pay amongst individuals working within the engineering industries it appears that if women are seeking equal pay within one of the associated sub-sectors (set out by Engineering UK) , the next best thing to changing gender is actually… Read More »Correlation versus causation
Sunday was international Women in Engineering day which inspired me to have a quick look at the state of the gender balance in related occupations over the 2014-18 period. The results – terrible – for each of the main engineering professions less than one sixth of workers were women, and overall, women accounted for only one in ten engineering professionals on average (10%) over the period – i.e. 43,000 all… Read More »Women in Engineering
Having been informed on more than one occasion of late that the issue of low representation for women amongst the IT professions is something somehow new/flying in the face of historical trends, over the past few days I have looked in to this to see if it is in fact true. The result, sadly I have to say, is that it is not – evidence for the halcyon days of… Read More »Women in IT setting the record straight –
Analysis of the latest data from the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS), shows that despite an abundance of finance/initiatives to increase the level of female representation within the engineering ‘professions’ (a set of ‘core’ occupations identified by Engineering UK within their Annual – State of Engineering report) – the gender balance for engineering actually declined slightly during the past year i.e. the proportion of individuals in engineering roles that were… Read More »Achieving gender balance in engineering may take 90 years
I have been working through the latest workforce data from ONS over the past few days, so thought it timely to post some stats for gender representation by occupation (Q4.18) – notable observations from which (for me at least) included: • the figures for Corporate Managers and Administrators which, though well out of balance (31% women in Q4.18), were not as bad as I had been expecting given some of… Read More »An update on gender representation for International Women’s Day!
Is the UK being left behind when it comes to gender representation in STEM. Just looking at the latest stats from NCES which show that, not only does the gender balance in STEM subjects in the US (post-secondary awards) look favourable compared to the UK, but also, the situation across the pond has been improving slightly in recent years. OK so educational systems differ I know, but, further analysis of… Read More »Is the UK being left behind when it comes to gender representation in STEM?
In 2017 women accounted for just 21% of individuals working in the marine sector (in this case defined as: ship building /repair and sea/coastal/inland water transport) compared with 47% within the workforce as a whole. Representation was much higher however in the ‘related industries’ (supply/distribution of seafood/related) at 35%.
Data for 2017 from the ONS Labour Force Survey shows that of the 301,000 people working in legal roles during 2017, 58% were women – well above the figure for workers as a whole (47%). That said, amongst the more senior positions i.e. judges/barristers, the level of representation for women was much lower at just 40%.