Key facts and figures

Key facts about SET women’s enterprise in the UK
There are just over 75,000 self-employed women in all SET occupations in the UK; this represents 6.4% of all self-employed people in SET occupations. Find out more.

Women in the public and private sectors
In 2009, women made up 34.8% of the public sector workforce and 9.1% of the private sector workforce in all SET occupations. Find out more.

Women are under-represented in SET in the UK
In 2008, nearly 13,000,000 women were workng in the UK - of these, only 5.3 per cent were in SET  occupations. Find out more.

Women qualify in SET but are lost at key transition points
In 2007-2008, women made up 33.4 per cent of all higher education students in SET disciplines and in June 2009 they made up 42.2 per cent of GCE A level students in STEM subjects. Find out more.

Women are needed in SET leadership
In 2008, women held only nine per cent of board directorships in SET FTSE 100 companies, and exclusively male boards still existed in 35.0 per cent of SET companies. Find out more.

The pace of change needs to increase
At the current rate of increase, in 2030 women will hold 18.0 per cent of directorships in the UK FTSE 100 companies in SET sectors. Find out more