Women in Construction

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A £10 million campaign to diversify the building industry was launched this month by the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board), backed by the Department for Education. Currently women make up 16% of the total UK construction workforce of two million people. How can the industry attract more girls to the trades and the wider world of construction, and what can be done to keep them there long-term? What’s the reality of working in such a male-dominated environment? And how might things change in the future? Tina Daheley speaks to Roma Agrawal, a structural engineer who worked on the Shard, Katie Kelleher, a former crane operator who now works as an Appointed Person at Select Plant Hire, Hattie Hasan, founder of Stopcocks Women Plumbers, Cristina Lanz Azcarate, Chair, London South East NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction), Sarah Fenton, Partnerships Director Midlands and North, CITB, (Construction Industry Training Board) and Lynsey Davies, a plasterer who is now training to be a quantity surveyor.

Presenter: Tina Daheley

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1:11.3	Construction is an industry dominated by broadcasts. workforce of 2 million people. A few weeks ago a 10 million pound CITB
1:25.9	fund, that's the Construction Industry Training Board, was sought to try to diversify
1:30.9	the sector. Well today we're going to look into what more can be
1:34.7	done to attract girls to construction jobs as well as what could be done to keep
1:38.9	them there for the long term. What's it like to work in such a male-dominated environment and what would the future
1:45.6	look like if things were more even? To discuss I'm joined in the studio by an architect, engineer,
1:52.4	plasterer, crane operator, plumber and
1:55.0	representative from the Construction Training Board, but I will let you all introduce
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