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Encouraging women into engineering careers could tackle UK’s skills shortage

Members'-only content Tim Fryer — Tue 24 Oct 2023 — updated 7 Nov 2023

According to last year’s figures from EngineeringUK, women still make up only 16.5 per cent of the engineering workforce. While that is a healthy six percentage point rise since 2010 and represents progress, many view rectifying the gender imbalance as one of the key opportunities for meeting our skills needs in the future.

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