Hiring a diverse workforce is becoming increasingly important to organisations as they realise the value people from different backgrounds are able to add to a business. Whilst diversity and inclusion covers a range of characteristics like nationality, ethnic background and age, it’s the lack of gender diversity which is one of the biggest areas of concern within the engineering industry.
A 2017 survey from Wisecampaign showed that the shortfall of engineering skills was as high as 60,000 last year and only 11% of engineering professionals in the UK are women. Not only could women play a key role in plugging the shortfall, studies show that businesses with a better gender balance perform better; according to a report from McKinsey, more gender diverse businesses outperform their competitors by 15%.
So how can businesses attract more women to work for them?
