A new report says less than ten per cent of Britain's engineers are women. This shows that Britain has the fewest women engineers of all European countries. Vince Cable, the UK Business Secretary, told reporters that this would be a “very big problem for years to come”. He said one of the biggest areas work that needed more women was in computer science. Many women graduate from university with degrees in computer science, so Mr Cable did not understand why there were so few women computer engineers. He said that many companies had a “psychological barrier (心理障碍)” against women becoming engineers. He said: “Half of all state schools don’t have a single girl doing physics. That’s the problem.”
The British government has started a new activity to get more women into engineering. It is called “Tomorrow’s Engineers Week” and started on November the 4th. Mr. Cable said at the meeting: “Engineering will play a very important role in the future of UK industry. It is important that we act now to make sure that the students are learning good skills, so that our businesses will grow with them.” A spokesman for Siemens (西门子) UK said Britain needed to “help young people understand how an engineering can be a rewarding career”.
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