WiSETI

The University of Cambridge Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative (WiSETI) was established in March 1999, a development of the Secretary General's Women in Science Group set up in 1993, to consider strategies for increasing the representation of women in science in the University.

The general picture in Cambridge is one of continuing under-representation of women in SET. There has been little significant change to the occupational hierarchy in all these disciplines where numbers of women fall away at each level (undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, permanent staff), whether the baseline is low (e.g. in engineering) or high (e.g. biochemistry).