Launched to mark International Women’s Day, a new report by online construction community, On The Tools, has discovered that 78% of tradeswomen face discrimination in their role, most frequently encountering negative comments and harassment. The [read more…]
New research has revealed that the construction industry has the second lowest percentage of self employed women in the UK, with only 3.9% of the industry’s self employed workers being female. The research analysed government [read more…]
Industry must end disgraceful environment women are subjected to on the shop floor, says union GMB after its research found that just 3% of ‘blue collar’ construction workers are women. The union’s analysis of ONS data shows overall [read more…]
As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) today (23rd June), we applaud all the talented women within the industry – however, they make up just a mere 12.37% according to statistics published by [read more…]
Just 73.9% of UK graduates were employed in professional roles at the beginning of last year, and this number is expected to fall even lower with the damaging effects Covid-19 has had on the job [read more…]
National M&E consultancy Couch Perry Wilkes (CPW) has demonstrated its dedication to promoting gender equality in engineering as it welcomes two new trainees to its East Midlands offices. Zoe Fittock joins the team in Leicester [read more…]
Exactly three years ago the British Armed Forces finally opened all roles to women. Since then applications for the frontline have doubled and 20% of the 80,000 applicants the Army received last year were female. [read more…]
It is an understatement to say that the industry still needs to make greater strides to bring more women into the construction industry. With data showing that women still comprise only 10% of the construction [read more…]
We recently caught up with Ewa Ambrosius, Associate at Perega about the challenges she’s overcome over the past 20 years as a woman in the construction sector. Here we speak with Nicole Curran, Field Service [read more…]
The skills shortage combined with the progress that women have been making within construction has meant that the stars are increasingly in alignment for females looking forge a career within the sector. There’s still a [read more…]
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