Gender breakdown for apprenticeships

TfL is committed to increasing the number of female apprentices and, indeed, diversity at all levels of the organisation.

TfL has recently launched an industry-wide campaign to celebrate 100 years since 100,000 women joined the industry during the First World War. This campaign seeks to showcase the role of women across the industry and inspire current and future generations. It seeks to motivate its existing female staff to flourish and progress to all levels and encourage more women of all ages to consider a career in transport by demonstrating the huge diversity of roles in the industry.

This builds on TfL’s existing activity, such as encouraging more girls to take up STEM subjects at school and beyond through its schools programme. Female apprentices and graduates are highly visible role models within our schools engagement activity. More than 370 secondary school girls participated in engineering days at London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot, held to celebrate the first ever Women’s Engineering Day in June. 

Female engineers have attended the Royal University Technical College to present to female students, and TfL is working with organisations such as Women in Science and Engineering, the Women’s Engineering Society to increase the number of female applicants across the business.

Female apprentices are also featured as part of TfL’s marketing to attract female applicants.