6 Education & schooling


12 SEPTEMBER 2022 FAMILY VALUES — AN ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE IN Females of the future


Encouraging women into STEM could help to close the gender pay gap and boost the economy. We find out how education can support the next generation. Words: Rhonda Carrier


While several studies have shown around a third of all UK entrepreneurs are women — a marked increase in recent years — girls continue to face gendered barriers from their early school life onwards, and these barriers shape their choices for years to come. And it remains the case that


in the UK, women are much less likely to start a business than men, which is clearly detrimental to the economy. According to Te Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship of 2019, if women started and scaled businesses at the same rate as men, they could add £250m to the British economy, by creating jobs and driving growth. So, what can be done to help foster the next generation of successful female entrepreneurs?


Importance of STEM Subjects In its latest report of December 2021, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Women and Enterprise (WEAPPG), chaired by MP Craig Tracey, focused on how STEM subjects have been shown to play a significant role in honing the skills needed to become an entrepreneur. Te report stresses the young girls


are much less likely to express an interest in becoming a scientist or an engineer than boys, and this translates into them taking fewer STEM subjects at A-level or university. Craig explains: “We’re not taking advantage of our education system to give children not just the skills to become entrepreneurs, but also the understanding that this is actually a career path open to them.”


Benefiting from careers advice and applied education Te Gatsby Charitable Foundation


— set up by politician, businessman and philanthropist David Sainsbury to strengthen the UK’s science and engineering skills — includes eight benchmarks for good careers guidance as part of its strategy. One benchmark states: ‘A school’s careers programme should embed equality and diversity considerations throughout […] and actively seek to challenge stereotypical thinking.’ Te WEAPPG report also calls for


Girls continue to face gendered barriers from their early school life onwards, and these barriers shape their choices for years to come


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the government to review the role of applied education in schools and calls for Women’s Business Centres (modelled on those in the US) to be set up on a regional basis to support female business leaders around the UK. It also stresses the need for greater private sector involvement, in the form of more entrepreneurs sharing their experiences with pupils and an increase in mentoring by existing female leaders, so girls can see the vast range of opportunities that exist. “Te sooner girls get those


opportunities the better for their long-term prospects,” says Erika Watson, director of Prowess — a social enterprise offering women- friendly business support. “And the


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confident women they’ll become will go on to inspire the next generation, so proper enterprise has a multiplier effect.”


Useful resources Ways in which schools can achieve this include encouraging girls to sign up to Modern Muse, a useful website that connects them with successful female role models in an array of job. Tese Muses share career stories, advice, and


information about companies they’ve worked for. Tere’s also Tech We Can, a


selection of free learning materials for use by teachers or parents to inspire girls about a career in technology. Meanwhile, Girls Who Code Clubs offer free programmes to excite girls about computer science, while the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s lesson plans challenge preconceptions about who does what job.


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DLD College London is a distinctive and forward- thinking school, creating unique learning opportunities


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Set in an enviable location in 100 acres of lawns, lakes and woodland in the New Forest, few prep schools can match Walhampton’s setting, which lends itself so well to outdoor learning and discovery in and out of the classroom. Described as ‘Excellent in all areas’


by the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) report (2018), Walhampton is a ‘radical traditional’ prep school that believes in focusing on the whole child and instilling a joy in learning that’s lifelong. From September this year,


Walhampton is beginning its new reimagined learner journey for boys and girls aged two to 13. Te new curriculum framework


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