Crossrail highlights shortage of women engineers

Name: Crossrail highlights shortage of women engineers
Uploaded: 2014-06-23T20:39:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min
Description: The gender gap in engineering urgently needs to be addressed as the industry is struggling to attract female engineers, according to Crossrail.

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Despite major projects like Crossrail, the UK has the lowest representation of female engineers in Europe.

BBC London reporter Gareth Furby spoke to Rail Minister Stephen Hammond, Crossrail project manager in Farringdon Nisrine Chartouny, Dervilla Mitchell from Arup and student engineer Rebecca Zhao about the issue.

London

23 June 2014