Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Professor McCormack was correct to emphasise the significant performance by women who are doing engineering courses. One of the things we have considered over the past number of weeks is how we can encourage more women to take up STEM subjects. We were given a statistic that approximately 40% of the PhDs being done in STEM subjects are being completed by women. Does that operate at the higher levels of the profession? In the professorial constituents of the engineering department in Trinity or other STEM subjects, are women equally represented at those levels.