Petition Make the term "Engineer" a legally protected designation.

Engineering as a profession is popularly confused in the UK with such occupations as plumbers, mechanics and fitters. This gives it both a lower status than it deserves and an unwarranted gender bias. This results in the UK having the lowest proportion of females in engineering in the whole OECD.

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There is already a severe shortage of graduate-level engineers and this is predicted to worsen. Many people are put off engineering at school, either because they (or their teachers) do not see it as a career for the academically gifted. In most of the developed world, it has a status closer to that of medicine and a correspondingly higher participation rate of females, ~30%, vs 7% in the UK.

IPPR 2014: Women in Engineering (2014)
Professor John Perkins' Review of Engineering Skills (2013)

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Date closed 9 September 2016
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