Time for some challenging questions

By Rachel Bell 2021-03-08T06:00:00

On International Women’s Day we should be asking what more construction employers can do for women’s careers, says Rachel Bell

What do men and women want from work? That was the central question of a piece of research carried out back in 2017. At that time, women were forecast to make up a quarter of the UK’s construction workforce by 2020. So here we are in 2021 and, to the best of my knowledge, we are not at 25% yet. In fact, although it varies across the different disciplines, the figure has been pretty much static for many years, averaging 15%.

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