Facts and Figures

Female and male apprentices

For more detailed information, please see the UKRC Statistics Guide

In 2006/07:

• Women were concentrated in the non-SET apprentice subjects such as health, public services and care
• Men predominated in engineering and manufacturing technologies and construction, planning and the built environment
• The most extreme gender differences were in construction, planning and the built environment and in engineering and manufacturing technologies, with a female proportion of apprentices and advanced apprentices at roughly 1 per cent.
• The lowest paying apprentice sectors such as hairdressing, early years and health and social care had the highest proportions of women among all apprentices.
• Overall, the highest paid sectors are all SET related: electrotechnical, engineering and manufacturing, construction and the motor industry, and have the lowest proportions of women apprentices.