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A new report less than ten per cent of Britain's engineers women. This is the lowest figure of all European countries. Vince Cable, the UK Business Secretary, reporters that this would be an "enormous problem for years to ". He said one of the biggest areas that more women was in computer science. Many women from university with degrees in computer science, so Mr Cable did not why there were so few female computer engineers. He that many companies had a "psychological barrier" against women engineers. He said: "Half of all state schools don't a single girl doing physics. We are only half the population."

The British government has a new campaign to more women into engineering. It is "Tomorrow's Engineers Week" and started on November the 4th. Mr Cable at the launch: "Engineering has a vital role to in the future of UK industry. It is important that we now to ensure businesses have access to the skills they to them to grow." A spokesman for Siemens UK said Britain needed to "help young people understand how an engineering [training programme] can to a rewarding career". The campaign website said it would " all the exciting businesses and industries…that on the work of creative engineers."

 


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