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Stereotype - Solutions

Provide:Visits/toursWork experienceWork shadowingTake your daughter to workSaturday jobsSummer jobs

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Stereotype - Solutions

Check the environment:Role models

Posters of women engineers

Name of buildings, meeting roomsOverallsWomen loos!

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Women

Lack of self-esteem and confidence

Do not take risks

Do not seek help

Language used

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Recruitment - Solutions

Be more pro-active

Review recruitment practices

Ensure women on recruitment panels

Women on committees and Board

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Why Science, Engineering, Technology and

Construction should recruit women?

Some factsBenefits to business

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Some Facts

A recent Equal Opportunity Commission’s investigation found a clear correlation between predominantly male employment sectors and skills shortage

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Some Facts

50,000 women with SET qualifications or experience are not working

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Benefits to Business

Reduce skills shortage

Improve InnovationBetter or different products

Customers’ loyaltyNew markets

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Quote

‘If more women attained positions of power in the workplace, the resulting dynamic would create a balance between genders that is both creative and beneficial for business. This transformation agenda applies to the way companies are run with regard to best practice, corporate responsibility and a host of other activities.

Ann Beynon, BT’s Director for Wales

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What Next?

The big picture:

In your businessIn businesses similar to yoursIn WalesIn the UKIn the world

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What next?

Work in partnerships:

Welsh Assembly GovernmentUK Resource Centre for Women in SETOpportunity NowWISE (Women Into Science, Engineering and construction)SEAs (Science, Engineering Ambassadors)Schools, Colleges, Universities…

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Conclusion

Good for your businessGood for InnovationGood for the UKGood for women