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From Coronavirus To Climate Change, The Challenges We Face Call For A Change In Our Culture Of Engineering

2020-03-11

More of the usual crap.
[NEWSWEEK] HAYAATUN SILLEM

Engineering in the U.K. has a major diversity deficit. Our workforce is 12 percent female and, despite decades of effort, the proportion of women entering engineering has hardly changed ‐ 7 percent apprentices; 16 percent among undergraduates. In addition, only 9 percent of the engineering workforce are from black and minority ethnic (BAME) groups,
"BAME" is th new "WOG."
which is shocking when you consider that over 30 percent of engineering undergraduates are. In fact there is a marked difference in progression into employment for BAME engineering graduates ‐ you are more than twice as likely to be unemployed six months after graduation if you're from a BAME group than your white counterpart, even taking into account the class of degree you achieved and type of university you went to.

There is now a well-established evidence base for the business benefits of diverse workforces and teams, ranging from productivity to creativity to health and safety to talent retention. But the diversity deficit in U.K. engineering also matters because, whether we realise it or not, engineers shape the world we live in in a profound way ‐ designing and delivering the digital and physical infrastructure that we all rely on, day in day out, as well as developing solutions that will be key to addressing critical challenges we all face, both locally and globally. It is essential that the people undertaking these crucial roles are more reflective of the society they serve.

It is particularly perverse that the U.K. simultaneously faces a severe skills shortage and an unacceptable diversity deficit in engineering: many of the emerging and in-demand jobs identified by the World Economic Forum are engineering jobs, yet every year the U.K. is short of up to 59,000 engineers. There is also good evidence that engineering is a career associated with higher than average salaries and job satisfaction. Unfortunately, the public and online images of engineers that young people are exposed to are dominated by narrow and outdated stereotypes of people, often men, in hard hats and high vis jackets, which simply do not reflect the breadth and variety of modern engineering careers.

Posted by:Fred

#8 Not just that CrazyFool; imagine hiring the student who knows without a doubt social justice doctrine got xhkdjld through college and into work.

Imagine the bullshit, the infallible suggestions, the accountability, and the promotion to human resources.

I read something, somewhere which stuck:
The easiest way for an employer to lose a good employee, is to tolerate a bad employee.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-03-11 19:44

#7 Shitshow, STEM Edition

Posted by: Lex 2020-03-11 16:12

#6 I wonder if the lack of hiring has anything to do with employers wondering if the candidate earned the degree or was simply granted it to fulfill some bullshit diversity quota.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-03-11 15:19

#5 Boycott bridges designed by white men!

Posted by: Gerthudion Slease3223 2020-03-11 14:18

#4 "There is now a well-established evidence base for the business benefits of diverse workforces and teams,"

Where is this, exactly? I remember reading that diversity was supposed to advance science research quality, and when I finally tracked down the original paper it claimed far far less than the breathless headlines--the differences were very minor and probably swamped by other considerations.
Amusingly, the study determined ethnicity by last name (first name was a single letter), so the study could say nothing at all about "diversity" as applied to sex or to black Americans.

I want to "Be a Berean" and read the studies for myself.

Posted by: James 2020-03-11 10:37

#3 there's a bunch of people that got flattened by a pedestrian bridge in FL that would disagree.

that bridge was a study in wokeness. unfortunately physics doesn't care how green, how diverse, how minority, how ethnic you are. it all works the same everywhere.

Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-03-11 10:24

#2 As long as everyone is spouting the correct texts and surrendering to their will, civilization's collapse is a small price to pay for purity.

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-03-11 09:22

#1 What, female STEM teachers - the reason modern school graduates are a bunch of rote reciting monkeys - are not enough? Now we must have female engineers to make the school buildings collapse?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-11 02:38

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