Encouraging more women to pursue physics as a subject and a career may not only help to reduce the gender pay gap, it could also boost productivity and innovation in the industry, as Liz Whitelegg, chair of the Institute of Physics’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee, recently explained.
She said: “For many years, physics has recruited its students from a narrow pool of available talent – that of White, middle-class boys. Not only is this pool not large enough to supply the quantity of physics-trained people needed in the future, selection of talent from such a narrow pool is not able to utilise creative and divergent thinking that comes from including a range of people from a variety of backgrounds, with different characteristics and different ways of thinking and behaving.”
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