Women in Engineering

Charlie Ward, recruitment consultant in Russell Taylor Group’s Technical Engineering Division, asks why women are under-represented in engineering - and what more can be done to attract female engineering graduates into this sector. THE world is moving on and boundaries are being broken every day, whether it be relating to a person’s creed, colour, race or gender. The day...

Investment by employers and government to educate and engage with young women, particularly from an early age, is key to unlocking their engineering talent, says Andy Coppock, senior recruitment consultant at Russell Taylor Group. WITH more than seven years’ experience of recruiting Project Controls and Commercial professionals into the UK engineering sector, I can see fi...

Ben Evans, recruitment consultant in Russell Taylor Group’s Technical and Engineering Division, looks to breaching the “leaky pipeline” of the education system as a solution to attracting more women into successful careers in engineering.SET with the task of writing a blog about women in engineering, as a 31-year-old male recruitment consultant and not a female engineer it w...

With no obvious gender bias when it comes to hiring women for engineering jobs, why does a small percentage still only take up engineering as a career? Melanie Mortin, recruitment consultant in Russell Taylor Group’s Technical and Engineering Division, looks into the ways forward to address the issue. ​WHERE do you start when putting your thoughts together on the topic of Wo...

OPENING the door of engineering opportunities for women has put Russell Taylor Group at the heart of finding solutions to the nation’s skills shortages.With the annual shortfall of engineers in the UK reckoned to be as high as 20,000 – a figure that could possibly rise if a Brexit outcome reduces the country’s international intake of labour – plugging these skills gaps has n...