To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, Niftylift has been exploring how empowering young women from an early age and developing opportunities within the workplace can inspire the next generation of STEM workers. The UK is [read more…]
With the crisis that construction is facing due to an ageing workforce, Charmaine Steele, Head of Culture and People Development at Dura Composites, looks at how the industry is struggling to attract younger people of [read more…]
National Federation of Builders (NFB) has launched its Women in Construction Top 100 Influencers at its Construction Summit. The Top 100 Influencers aims to showcase the most influential women and non-binary role models in construction as [read more…]
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…]
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