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Letter from Davos: STEM skills gap is pretty serious stuff

Aberdeen Asset Management CIO Anne Richards discusses the low number of women choosing to study in science, technology, engineering and maths

Pretty curious. Pretty determined. Pretty focused. These are all strap lines from an imaginative new campaign to encourage more girls to consider science and engineering as a career.

It's run by EdF, a French company with big operations in the UK producing about a fifth of the nation's electricity. Like many companies, EdF suffers from the UK's notable skills gap in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

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