Survey profiles women engineers

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A survey carried out by The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology has provided a picture of how women engineers are perceived in the industry.

A survey carried out by The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC) has provided a picture of how women engineers are perceived in the industry.

UKRC collaborated with engineering staffing company EPCglobal to survey 2,191 engineers across all fields and from around the world, including 702 from the UK. Of the respondents, 28 per cent were women.

Among other findings, the survey showed that there is agreement among 86 per cent of UK engineers that women are under-represented in engineering, but only 41 per cent know the rough proportion of women in the profession and that of UK-based employers, 27 per cent are perceived to have gender diverse workplaces at all levels. In the US the figure is 37 per cent.

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