Developing Female Engineers

The Institution of Engineering and Technology says the impression that ‘engineering is just for men’ needs to change in British businesses are to be successful. Research carried out by the institution has shown that the number of female engineers has remained at just 6% for past few years. The government announced in June, that it would be providing funding of £30 million to increase the supply of engineers, encourage more women into the sector and to address engineering skills shortages in smaller companies. The fund will enable engineering companies to establish training programmes to develop future engineers and boost the number of women in the profession. £10 million of the fund will be directed to a call to ‘Developing Women Engineers’.