Reports, articles, evidence
2014
2013
- Aspires Project, Science and Career Aspirations, 2013, King's College London
- Britain's Got Talented Women Engineers (Sept 2013, Atkins)
- BIS Survey on Attitudes to Engineering Before and After Tomorrow's Engineer's Week, 2013
- Engineering UK 2013 Report - flagship report on the state of engineering in the UK
- Women and the Economy, Government Equalities Office November 2013
- The Impact of Tuition Fees on Prospective Physics Students 2013, IoP November 2013
- Addressing the Gender Balance - Reaping the Gender Dividend in STEM, STEM Business Group November 2013
- The Perkins Report - Review of Engineering Skills, November 2013
- Britain's Got Talented Female Engineers, Successful Women in Engineering: A Careers Research Study, Atkins October 2013
- WES input to The Science and Technology Committee inquiry into Women in Academic STEM Careers September 2013
- Women in the Workplace, House of Commons BIS Committee Report June 2013
- Maximising Women's Contribution to Future Economic Growth, Women's Business Council June 2013
- The Changing Labour Market: Delivering for Women, Delivering for Growth, Fawcett Society Report 2013
- Women on Boards Second Annual Review, April 2013
2012
- The Important of Physics to the Scottish Economy, October 2012
- WISE UK Statistics 2012
- Think, Act, Report, November 2012
- Jobs and Growth: The Importance of Engineering Skills to the UK Economy Royal Academy of Engineering Report October 2012
- Project Stages "Structural transformation to achieve gender equality in science" August 2012
- House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Report on Higher Education in STEM. July 2012
- Engineering UK 2012 Report - flagship report on the state of engineering in the UK
- Jobs for the Boys, January 2012
- Women in Science have have nothing to fear but their own subconscious - An article from The Guardian newspaper, presenting the idea that the accumulation of small, inherent biases against women in science can hinder their advancement. (September 2012)
2011
- Tapping all our talents - Women in STEM: a Strategy for Scotland - A report with recommendations for creating a strategy to increase the proportion of women in the workplace qualified in STEM subjects, and to increase the number who rise to senior positions in universities, research institutes, government, business and industry. Published April 2012 (PDF 1.96 MB)Unlocking Potential: perspectives on women in science, engineering and technology. The Smith Institute, 2011
- Why so few? - An article published by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) asking the age-old question, "Why so few women in science and engineering?" (2010
2010 and earlier
- 'My Sparkling Career' - Advertising document, encouraging women into Engineering, 2012 (PDF 777 KB) [NOTE: This document contains several links that are worth exploring]
- InGenious Britain - Sir James Dyson's report to the Conservative Party, 2010
- Girls in the Physics Classroom, IoP Report June 2006
- Gender in Engineering - IMechE education policy statement, 2004 (PDF 326 KB)
- Sex, Lives and Videotape Summary Report of a Seminar held at the IEE, London, 22 November 2004 (Word 47 KB)
- A strategy for women in SET - the government response to SET Fair, 2003
- SET to lead - Katalytik, working in collaboration with UCL Engineering, received funding to address the differences in transition rates between male and female engineering and technology students into relevant jobs.
- Making Assessment Centres Inclusive
- Little Miss Geek Blog - Making technology more available to women
- Engineering undervalued? - A survey, carried out by Bosch, suggests that UK adults undervalue Engineering. (To view the original survey results report, click here)
- Scientists, your gender bias is showing... - An article that suggests there IS gender bias in science, and the women are just as guilty as the men!
- SET Fair Report - Recommendations for a step change in efforts in increase the numbers of women in SET. WES members constituted an amazing number of the working group participants, 2002