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Fiona Dew
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Over the last couple of months The IET has been leading a campaign on Twitter to draw attention to the fact that only 9% of engineers in the UK are women.  Hundreds of engineers have posted photos with the hashtag 9PercentIsNotEnough aiming to inspire the next generation of female engineers.


A handful of the most recent tweets are brought together in this post.


In the Women's Network we'd love to hear what you think, in the year after The IET had our first female President, what will it take to get more women into engineering?  And what will the engineering industry have to do to keep them?


 



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  • 9% is definitely not enough. Engineering generally needs to be promoted more effectively as a viable career option early on; I never considered being an engineer until I was completing my university studies. More action is required in early years at schools before GCSE options are decided.



    I think a big issue for women progressing in engineering (and any career) is the assumption that when raising a family they will be the primary caregiver; this is an area where women and men are still not treated equally.
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  • 9% is definitely not enough. Engineering generally needs to be promoted more effectively as a viable career option early on; I never considered being an engineer until I was completing my university studies. More action is required in early years at schools before GCSE options are decided.



    I think a big issue for women progressing in engineering (and any career) is the assumption that when raising a family they will be the primary caregiver; this is an area where women and men are still not treated equally.
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