The Deputy Minister for Transport, Mark Hooper, met Marie Daly, Chief Operating Officer at Transport for Wales and Chair of Women in Rail, earlier this month, to hear about the progress being made to recruit and retain women in the transport sector in Wales.
The meeting comes as figures continue to show women are under-represented in the sector.
Transport for Wales research has found women make up only 20% of Wales's Transport and Communications workforce, falling to just 6.7% among transport and mobile machine drivers and operators, with particularly low representation among drivers, engineers and vehicle maintenance staff.
There are signs of progress, however. The number of female Transport for Wales train drivers rose from 54 to 76 between 2022 and 2023, taking women's representation among drivers from 7.4% to 9.3%, while the proportion of women among new Transport for Wales apprentices rose from 14.3% to 42.9% over the same period.
For further information please select the following link: Boosting female representation in the Welsh transport sector | GOV.WALES.