Now the Institute of Physics (IoP) has launched a pilot programme to encourage more girls to pursue the subject to A level and to consider careers in science.
The initiative will run for the next three years, funded by a £201,000 donation from the Drayson Foundation, a charity that supports projects in healthcare and the education of young people.
The money will enable the IoP team to work with a cluster of six secondary schools and a selection of primary schools in the Thames Valley region to find ways of reducing the gender imbalance of youngsters taking A level physics.
The project aims to increase the confidence of secondary school girls in the subject and will encourage them to visit primary schools as ambassadors for physics.
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