Women of Steel
Tata Steel UK’s comms team speaks to the female leaders, role models, trail blazers and those at the start of their careers, to discover more about the 11% of women in a male-dominated industry. Join us as we celebrate the Women of Steel.
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Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
According to the Women’s Engineering Society, only 12% of engineers in the UK are women. Yet during schooling girls across the board do better than their male peers at STEM subjects (not including chemistry). So why is it that young girls, who have the capability to achieve, choose not to enter a career with high earning capacity and diverse opportunities across a number of sectors? Is it all to do with gender?
In discussion with four recent graduates and relative newcomers to the steel industry, the podcast explores what it means to be a young woman in a traditionally male workplace, the barriers young girls face in choosing a career outside of the 'norm' and how being a women can have its advantages.