How STEM isn’t the only route into aerospace for jobseekers

While the industry needs more female engineers, former chartered accountant Victoria Foy, chief executive of a Safran unit, insists there are other routes for women into aerospace.

Sparking an early interest among female school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, subjects, and sustaining that through college or university, is rightly seen as key to redressing the gender imbalance in aerospace and aviation by equipping young women to do jobs that have traditionally been the preserve of men.