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

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

 


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