Developing Women Scientists, Engineers and Technologists — and helping them stay!

Meg Munn

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2012)

Perspectives

Developing Women Scientists, Engineers and Technologists — and helping them stay!

Published 23-04-2012

Meg Munn

Meg Munn
House of Commons, London

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Developing Women Scientists, Engineers and Technologists — and helping them stay!. (2012). International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 4(1), 129-135. https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/234

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Abstract

Meg Munn is a British Member of Parliament.& She has represented&the Sheffield Heeley constituency in South Yorkshire since 2001. During the last administration she held several government posts including&that of Minister for Women and Equality.&Here she offers&a UK policy perspective on women in Science, Engineering and Technology from her time in parliament and discusses, from the perspective of a constituency MP, policy implementation at a more local level.

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science, technology, engineering, women, UK, policy

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