Women in STEM careers

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 25 June 2013 to 7 May 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 6th Report - Women in scientific careers (Report, together with formal minutes) (6 February 2014)
• 9th Special Report - Women in scientific careers: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2013-14 (7 May 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 30 October 2013: Dr June McCombie, former Chair of IOP Project, Juno Panel, Institute of Physics, Sarah Dickinson, Manager, Athena SWAN Charter, Equality Challenge Unit, Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Chair of Diversity Programme, Royal Society, and Dr Pia Ostergaard, Senior Fellowship Advisor, Daphne Jackson Trust; Professor Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London, representing Russell Group, Professor Jane Powell, Deputy Warden, Goldsmith's, University of London, representing 1994 Group, and Clem Herman, Senior Lecturer, Computing and Communications, Open University (at 10.15 am).
• 4 November 2013: Dr Lesley Thompson, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (representing the Research Councils UK), and David Sweeney, Director, Research, Innovation and Skills, Higher Education Funding Council for England.
• 18 November 2013: Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.