A Future Worth Building: What Tradeswomen Say about the Change They Need in the Construction Industry. IWPR #C508

Autor/inn/en	Hegewisch, Ariane; Mefferd, Eve
Institution	Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)
Titel	A Future Worth Building: What Tradeswomen Say about the Change They Need in the Construction Industry. IWPR #C508
Quelle	(2021), (56 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Building Trades; Females; Experience; Sexual Identity; Promotion (Occupational); Employed Women; Employed Parents; Apprenticeships; Change Strategies; Attitudes; Work Environment; Sexual Harassment; Gender Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Racial Discrimination; Job Satisfaction; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Labor Turnover; Salary Wage Differentials + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Building trade; Bauwesen; Baugewerbe; Weibliches Geschlecht; Erfahrung; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Aufstiegsberuf; Berufsförderung; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Apprenticeship; Lehre; Lösungsstrategie; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Arbeitsmilieu; Sexuelle Belästigung; Racial bias; Rassismus; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf
Abstract	Careers in the construction trades can provide high earnings and good benefits, often through a learn-while-you-earn apprenticeship. In 2020, more than 300,000 women worked in the trades--the largest number ever. Yet while their numbers are growing, women still make up fewer than one in twenty of workers in construction occupations. This report draws on the voices and experiences of 2,635 tradeswomen and non-binary tradespeople who answered the 2021 Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) Tradeswomen's Retention and Advancement Survey. The report discusses what factors help and hinder tradeswomen's advancement in the trades, describes what it is like to be a parent in the trades, and reports on the perspectives of women apprentices. The report highlights changes that are required to help the construction industry build and sustain a skilled workforce that reflects the population of the 21st century. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01