These obstacles arise from traditional and stereotyped views, which still shape young people's aspirations in education, training and employment. This is immensely useful, as most human endeavour is achieved when we work together with one another. There are two reasons why business needs to worry about the lack of representation of the female sex in science, engineering and technology. Stereotypical thinking leads us to ignore at least half the potential candidates for recruitment into these careers. Good engineers are good engineers no matter what their ethnic origin, gender, religion or social background.
Diversity promotes innovation, which enhances competitive advantage.
Key requirements for engineering in the future are agility, flexibility and capability to evolve as working environments change. These are not gender-specific traits. At least let them form an opinion based on information not popular belief and misconceptions. Secondly I'd like you to check whether your organisation is inclusive towards women in engineering. Here's a story to think about.