Skills- Proportion of female engineers falls since 2013

THE PROPORTION of female engineers has actually dropped since last year, according to the IET´s 2014 skills survey, despite repeated calls to boost their numbers in the profession. Responses from 400 engineering firms showed that just 6 per cent of engineers in the workforce are female, down from 7 per cent last year, while the proportion of female technicians also dropped from 4 per cent in 2013 to 3 per cent in 2014.