International Women in Engineering Day: let’s get the message right

By Sue Sljivic 2019-06-21T05:00:00

Construction industry engineers should consider retraining as teachers to stop girls getting the message that engineering is for boys

Last October a professor at the University of Pisa caused a media storm when he opined that ‘physics was invented and built by men’, and claimed that men score progressively better than women as their physics careers progress. Such comments – which were condemned by CERN as ‘highly offensive – were an uncomfortable reminder that young women still find themselves facing overt hostility from the men who are supposed to be teaching them.

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