Female Gender - An ofsted report found “From Year 3 (age 7–8) in the UK onwards girls’ views regarding future careers tend to conform to traditional notions of ‘girls’ jobs’ and ‘boys’ jobs’. These notions are reinforced by parents’ views”[2]. A girl guiding review of member opinions found “Almost half of girls (53%)think science/engineering is too hard or complicated” and “60% of females said they also were put off by a lack of female role models.” [3] The WISE report and ofsted report both found changes in female career choices were “caused by a personal experience of either meeting a professional in school, or directly encountering the new kind of work for themselves.”[1][2]

Female Gender - An ofsted report found “From Year 3 (age 7–8) in the UK onwards girls’ views regarding future careers tend to conform to traditional notions of ‘girls’ jobs’ and ‘boys’ jobs’. These notions are reinforced by parents’ views”[2]. A girl guiding review of member opinions found “Almost half of girls (53%)think science/engineering is too hard or complicated” and “60% of females said they also were put off by a lack of female role models.” [3] The WISE report and ofsted report both found changes in female career choices were “caused by a personal experience of either meeting a professional in school, or directly encountering the new kind of work for themselves.”[1][2]

Ethnic Minorities - miss out on knowledge of environmental science as their teachers, parents and other influencers don’t emphasis it or don’t have the required science knowledge to enhance pupil’s science capitol. Both the Wellcome Trust and ASPIRES reports confirm that families constitute the greatest source of influence on 10-14 year olds’ aspirations.[4][5]. Some of the reasons pupils neglect environmental science are that is not relevant to my studies or experience, lack of EDI representation in environmental sciences, not for people like me, lack of progression and lack of pay. This is evident by DEFRA in 2017 reporting 18% ethnic minorities staff, environment agency in 2008 a 3.85% staff from ethnic minority increasing by 0.65% in 2016 and Natural England staff in 2016 had 1.81% from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups [6].