You can see the engineer in everyone when you look at how children play – the endless exploration and iteration of solutions to, admittedly often ill-defined, problems – from building blocks to sandpits. It is a pleasure to behold. But it’s also a sorry truth that career stereotypes start to form at an early age, at least as far back as primary school. One of the challenges we have in encouraging women and people from more diverse backgrounds into engineering is to overcome old-fashioned, hard-hatted stereotypes about engineering and who works in it.
