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Why does the UK lack female engineers?

Director Karen Livesey & IET President Naomi Climer on the women behind Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge was re-built during WW2 by a predominantly female workforce - a story being told in new film The Ladies Bridge.

Karen Livesey, director of the film, and Naomi Climer, president of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, discuss the bridge and why there are so few female engineers in the UK.

(Image: Waterloo Bridge. Credit: Getty Images.)

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