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DTI Report: Recommendations to increase the number of women scientists

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At the request of the UK Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, a new report by Baroness Greenfield CBE was published 28 November 2002 tackling the gender gap in science, engineering and technology. The report gives a number of recommendations to improve the recruitment and retention of female engineers and scientists.

The report looks into the issues surrounding three particular
career stages:
- starting out in a career in science, engineering or technology;
- mid-career development; and
- breaking through the glass-ceiling to the top jobs.

Baroness Susan Greenfield is currently a Senior Research fellow at
Lincoln College, and an Honorary Fellow at St Hilda's College,
Oxford. In 1998 she was appointed Director of the Royal Institution
of Great Britain, a post she holds jointly with her chair in Oxford.

To date she has published some 150 peer-reviewed papers. In 1994 she
was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures
and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio.

She was voted 'Woman of the Year' by the Observer in December 2000.
In 1998, she received the Michael Faraday medal from the Royal
Society for making the most significant contribution to the public
understanding of science. In 2000 she was elected to an Honorary
Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.

The report can be found on the DTI website at:
http://www2.set4women.gov.uk/set4women/research/the_greenfield_rev.htm

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UK Department of Trade and Industry

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