Australia failing to attract more female engineers

Engineers Australia CEO Romilly Madew discusses Australia’s failure to attract more female engineers. Only 16 per cent of Australia’s working engineers are female, and of that 16 per cent, 3.8 per cent of them are born in Australia. “There is cultural reasons and there is bias reasons,” Ms Madew told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. “If you look at girls in schools, the schools don’t advocate the importance of maths and science. “Parents, teachers and career advisors don’t advertise and advocate on behalf of engineering.” Ms Madew added that young girls also do not know what being an engineer means and more work should be done to bring them into the industry.