UK Resource Centre for Women (UKRC)
Launched on 16 September 2004 and based in Bradford the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET (UKRC) works with British business to help maximise the opportunities for professional women in SET and close the skills gap that is damaging UK competitiveness.
The Resource Centre was set up as part of the Government's Strategy for Women in SET published in 2003, which was the response to SET Fair, the Greenfield Report of 2002, that highlighted the barriers which result in girls and women playing an unrepresentative role in SET, both in its workforce and its governance.
It supports the Governments strategy objective to work with employers to improve the position of women in SET via:
- Recognition for good SET employers;
- Sharing of good employment practice;
- Disseminating and sharing of information;
- Setting up and maintaining of an expert women's database;
- Maintaining and dissemination of statistics;
- Raising of the profile of women in SET;
- Pump-priming innovation through developing support for initiatives such as mentoring, networking, speaker's bursaries and mobility issues;
- Supporting of women Returners; and
- Co-ordination of the work of women in science organisations.
To find out more about the UK Resource Centre for Women, women in SET more generally visit their website.
