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Written question asked by Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 3 June 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 5 June 2019. It was answered by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) on Tuesday, 11 June 2019 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.


Science: Women

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment she has made of female representation in scientific occupations as career levels progress.

Answer

This is publicly available information.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish data on employment by occupation, which is available by gender: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/employmentbyoccupationemp04

The Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) publish data on academic research staff in UK universities, broken down by seniority, sex and ethnicity through the Higher Education Staff Data, Detailed Tables 13 and 15: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
259220
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Women Science
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk