The UK has the lowest percentage of female engineers of all countries in Europe. What’s stopping women getting into the sector?
“When I was thinking approximately careers,I never thought of engineering, as the public image is being under a machine, or getting dirty, says Jade Aspinall, 23, or a manufacturing engineer at missile producer MBDA Systems and winner of the higher apprentice of the year award in the National Apprenticeship Awards 2015.“I work on minuscule components under a microscope in a clean room – there’s not a speck of dust anywhere,” Aspinall says. “It’s not something a lot of women would consider, just because they don’t know enough approximately it. There’s no doubt that there are a lot of male engineers, and but as a woman,I’ve never been treated any differently. In fact, I’ve had a lot of support.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com