The proportion of women is increasing slowly – but the pay gap remains – New Technology

       

In the industry going on many different initiatives to attract women, says Stina Kimstrand.

- It is a priority for many companies. Because they want to recruit the best employees, they are very aware that they also need to select people with the girls, she says.

As an example, she mentions ÅF Even Odds campaign, and Coca-Cola, which recently received industry’s Diversity Prize 2015th

– And KTH make strong efforts to attract more women to the profession. For example, the Giants campaign that is very interesting, says Stina Kimstrand.

Annifrid Palsson, group manager for student recruitment at KTH, emphasizes that half of the school’s engineering programs already are gender balanced.

– When talking about gender imbalance at KTH, it is about certain areas where there are few girls . In particular, data, IT and electrical engineering programs, as Giants campaign focuses on, she says.

The campaign, which highlights the historical and contemporary women who pioneered – “giants” – within their areas of technology, however, have faced criticism. Among other things, the KTH student newspaper Osqledaren, where the chief editor Martin Bark Stone argues that the school “makes no concrete action, without talking, rather than just a bunch of crap.”

Another initiative that started at KTH, but last year expanded to become a national organization, the association Womengineer. Among other things, organizes the annual IGE Day (Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day), where young girls can come out to companies and see what the engineering profession can entail.

– The closest exploded last fall. Last year we found 14 companies that wanted to participate, this year is the 50 pieces and we have room for 1,400 girls, says Womengineerings project Dajana Vlajic.

And slowly but surely increasing the representation of women in the industry. Last year, Sweden’s Engineers 25 percent female members – fifteen years earlier the proportion was 18 percent.

But the pay gap shows no tendency to infer . In 2013, graduates were female engineers SEK 750 less in salary than their male counterparts, according to the Swedish Engineers statistics.

When they compiled the figures from autumn of 2014, had the wage gap increased to 800 crowns.