Improving gender balance in transport

Helen Wollastonwww.wisecampaign.org.uk

@HelenWollaston@thewisecampaign

More women but widening gender gap

Huge opportunities in transport• Transport infrastructure spending rising by 50% this

Parliament• £15 billion investment in roads• Most ambitious rail modernisation programme since the

Victorian era• Shortage of 55,000 skilled people by 2020• 30,000 apprenticeships, 20% of these to be women by 2020,

gender parity by 2030

A rich talent pool

Transforming the culture

Join the campaign• Provide role models • Access advice on recruitment strategy• Advertise through WISE• Get your company involved• Share good practice – from the classroom to

the boardroom

John Hayes, Transport Minister“We will combine, all of us, to work together, to unleash unrealised talent of tens of thousands of women… A new generation of heroines.”