Education, Learning & Skills

• Only 20% of the IT workforce are women. Key factors include a poor stereotyped image of the industry, women feeling excluded in such a male-dominated industry and a lack of strong female role models. (DTi, Women in the IT Industry: Towards a business case for diversity, 2005)
• 18.7% of employees within SET (Science, Engineering and Technology) are women, despite one in three SET graduates being female. The statistic falls at management level to 15%. (Labour Force Survey, 2004)
• Only 10% of the construction workforce are women. (Labour Force Survey 2004)

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