Breaking through the glass ceiling in STEM.

Breaking through the glass ceiling in STEM.

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with a push for equity in STEM. We want to ensure all young girls start their vision of a career with ‘I can do this too’.

Lauren McIntyre and Mhairi Cooper spent the day at the Scottish Schools Hydrogen Challenge regional final in Glasgow encouraging the participants, including Ajiha Asif and Samantha Chan from Shawlands Academy, who walked away proudly with their 1st place prize.

Mhairi, one of ARC’s founding members, spoke at the event highlighting her own route to becoming a safety engineer, through work experience and additional study.

Mhairi’s speech aimed to highlight the various pathways into a career in STEM and that there were no barriers to a career in engineering.

She said further work needs to be done in all levels of education, workforces and wider society to address equity throughout an engineer’s career to improve gender imbalance. Women currently represent under 17% of the UK workforce in engineering.

At ARC we’re proud to support equity in STEM.