Balancing the Building Team: Gender Issues in the Building Professions. Report 284.

Autor/inn/en	Court, Gill; Moralee, Janet
Institution	Sussex Univ., Brighton (England). Inst. for Employment Studies.
Titel	Balancing the Building Team: Gender Issues in the Building Professions. Report 284.
Quelle	(1995), (161 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	1-85184-210-1
Schlagwörter	Building Trades; Career Choice; Career Development; Change Strategies; Employed Women; Employment Level; Employment Opportunities; Employment Patterns; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Foreign Countries; Gender Issues; Individual Characteristics; Literature Reviews; National Surveys; Nontraditional Occupations; Promotion (Occupational); Questionnaires; Recruitment; Secondary Education; Sex Fairness; Tables (Data); Vocational Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Building trade; Bauwesen; Baugewerbe; Berufsentwicklung; Lösungsstrategie; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Beschäftigungsgrad; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Ausland; Geschlechterfrage; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Non-traditional occupations; Alternatives Berufsfeld; Aufstiegsberuf; Berufsförderung; Fragebogen; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Sekundarbereich; Sexualaufklärung; Tabelle; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Großbritannien
Abstract	The following activities were conducted to identify strategies for improving the representation of women in professional, managerial, and technical occupations in the United Kingdom's building industry: literature review; mail questionnaire to which 468 (63.8%) of the 733 women contacted responded; group discussions with 32 women employed in the building industry, career advisers, building educators, and employers; and telephone interviews with seven key industry figures. The findings were synthesized into a plan calling for the following actions: promote public awareness of the role of women in building; support educational initiatives in building; promote general school/college liaison activities; offer work placements/work shadowing for girls/young women and teachers/career advisers; improve parents', teachers', and career advisers' knowledge of careers in building; make the business case for equal opportunities in the building industry; ensure that the principle of equal opportunity is followed in recruitment activities; help older women enter professional careers in building; train women in the skills needed to deal with difficult people; counter the negative image of women-only events; ensure that building employers take equal opportunities seriously; and help women combine work and family life. (Contains 29 tables/figures and 174 references. Appended are the following: study methodology, questionnaire, and 14 additional tables/figures.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	BEBC Distribution, 15 Albion Close, Parkstone, Poole BH12 3LL, England, United Kingdom (40 British pounds).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC