
Royal Academy of Engineering notes progress in improving diversity but emphasises need for further work
The UK engineering profession is making progress towards shedding its traditional image as a bastion of white, male cultural stereotypes, but the sector still has “a long way to go”, a study by the Royal Academy of Engineering has found.
According to the report, Inclusive Cultures in Engineering 2023, three-quarters of engineers believe that inclusion in engineering has improved in the past five years. Those respondents who reported themselves as transgender felt they had witnessed the biggest advances.