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
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