UK engineering's gender imbalance is embarrassing, leading figure says

Britain's record on employing female engineers is worst in Europe, says Hayaatun Sillem, CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering

The failure of British engineering companies to increase the proportion of women they employ above 10% is a source of embarrassment, one of the profession's leading figures has said.

Hayaatun Sillem, chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said the gender imbalance was particularly frustrating given the significant progress made by other countries and in professions like law and medicine.