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UKRC Mission
“to improve the position and the participation of women in science, engineering, technology and the built environment”
Occupations
Nurse Lawyer Electrician
Secretary Mechanical Engineer Accountant Hairdresser
Primary School Teacher Plumber Doctor
Airline pilot Administrator
HR Manager IT Consultant
Occupational Segregation
Associate professional and technical (e.g. nursing, teaching)
Admin and secretarial work
Personal services (caring for children/elderly people)
Sales and customer service
Non-skilled manual work
SET Occupational Gender Splits
15% ICT professionals are women
5% professional engineers are female
19% building professionals
39% science professionals (but only 13% female professors in bioscience)
Where are we now?
Girls make up 42.4% of A level students in STEM
subjects
Women make up 33.5% of all higher education
(HE) students in SET disciplines
Women represent 19% of SET workforce
Women hold 9.0% of directorships in the UK FTSE
100 companies in SET sectors
8.0% of all SET professors are female
How do we address occupational segregation?
Challenge young women’s assumptions/career choices (not all engineers wear hard hats)
Make them aware of the range of careers in SET
Make them aware that the highest earnings are achieved in male-dominated, graduate professions
Gender Equality Training
A one-day programme to:
raise awareness of:
the need for widening career choice for women
factors affecting entry into non-traditional careers for women
implicit and explicit stereotyping in careers guidance and education
reflect on strategies to overcoming gender stereotyping when offering guidance or information to girls and women