In 2024, despite the wide range of opportunities, there are still challenges getting women into STEM careers and encouraging them to progress to leadership positions.
The number of females continuing to study STEM subjects after GCSEs is only 35 per cent, with this decreasing to 25 per cent choosing to do so at university.
Also, women make up just 29.4% of the STEM workforce. Even fewer are in leadership positions or at board level, despite research showing that large UK firms whose executive boards were one-third female were ten times more profitable on average than all-male boards.
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