Summary
Employers in a number of key industries in Birmingham are being warned that the UK faces a massive skills shortage over the next few years unless businesses dramatically change their policies towards employing women and increase their 'XX' factor - the female chromosome.
The warning comes from JIVE, a major partnership project led by the UKRC (UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, or SET) that has developed new ways to tackle the issue of the under-employment of women in these industries.See the full content of this document
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Employers Warned Over Massive Skills Shortage
JIVE has provided support to - and won the backing of - thousands of women across the UK.
By 2010, only 20 per cent of the UK workforce will be white, able- bodied, full-time working men, significantly impacting on the traditionally male-dominated SET and construction industries - particularly as only a quarter of women with qualifications in science, engineering or technology are employed in any of those sectors. JIVE is calling on top-level managers to: Actively support the increased representation of wo...See the full content of this document
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