'Hide your families and live in your office' advice for female engineers

Female engineers must learn to hide their families and  be prepared to live in the office in order to succeed.

That's according to new research conducted by academics from Nottingham University Business School, Birmingham Business School and Warwick Business School.

The report, published to mark National Women in Engineering day, detailed one to one interviews with 50 female respondents who each worked in technical and managerial roles for three leading FTSE 100 organisations in the UK.

Writing in The Guardian, Laurie Cohen, Professor of Work and Organisation, Nottingham University Business School said: "The women engineers who took part in our study fully recognised the importance of family life, but at the same time they felt it should remain largely in the background. They saw it both as a constraint on career advancement and as a principal reason to quit.