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Women in construction

by The Editor at 12:53 11/03/07 (News)
Last year, Ray O'Rourke, chairman of Laing O'Rourke, caused a storm of protest when he said that a building site "is not a place where women fit".
Property and construction are still male-dominated businesses. There is a fair number of female property lawyers and chartered surveyors, but only one per cent of those working on site, from bricklayers to architects, are women. The Daily Telegraph looks at whether attitudes are slowly changing by profiling some women who do work in the construction industry.

Full article: No place for a woman? Somebody forgot to tell these people - D. Telegraph, March 2007

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Susie Hughes
The Editor © Hardhatter 2007