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#9PercentIsNotEnough - how do we inspire more girls to become engineers?

Gender diversity in engineering is shocking. At best, 9% of UK engineers are female. This has to change. How do you think we can inspire more girls to become engineers?

Engineers play a vital role in society, they transform the lives of people everywhere. To be able to do this, engineers have to understand society's needs, but how can the engineering community do this if it does not represent society? Today in the UK, at most only 9% of engineers and technology employees are female. This is not enough.