The issue of female representation in engineering is a serious topic that can become somewhat trivialised by writing on it in ‘Women’s Month’ (August), as though that is the only time it rates a mention.South Africa’s record on employing female engineers is well behind countries such as Latvia, Cyprus, and Bulgaria, where about 30% of their respective engineering workforces are women, and also behind Sweden (26%) and Italy (20%). In countries like Malaysia and Oman, the engineering workforce is 更多
