Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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I will not be able to get to everybody. All of the witnesses said interesting things, but time will prevent me from getting around to all of them. Professor McCormack spoke about women's attainment. It is clear and impressive that more women come out on top in engineering at the highest level. The completion rate is 90% compared with 67% for boys. Another way of looking at that is to ask whether we should be concerned about men's attainment here. It is right and proper to talk about getting more women interested in STEM, but we have to have equal concern. What is going on here? Is it that there is such a bias in favour of boys doing these subjects that more go for it who are not really as suited for it and the small cohort of women who go for it are those who are really good? Is that what the figures are telling us?