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MPs probe lack of women in construction

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  1. Great plan can the plan please include Scottish women

  2. Unconscious bias is rampant in the construction industry middle aged white males employ other middle aged white males or females just like them.
    Leading to dull one dimensional people running the industry and ensuring through their recruitment processes the status quo remains.
    This costs the industry is huge in terms of attracting and recruiting a diverse workforce for the future.
    I have worked in the industry for four years and experienced this first hand. I have seen bright young people full of energy and enthusiasm being put down humiliated by people who do not have the ability to manage people and are unconsciously incompetent . Social skills are not valued and until this changes and mentoring and coaching skills are seen as important , the industry will keep losing good people.
    It’s a shame.

  3. Why not look at why there are so few women in garbage collection, and so few men in teaching while they are at it?

  4. Dorothy, I’m one of the middle aged, middle class white men you clearly have such a problem with, but while my social skills are not great, I would like to think I’m not a straight line, or indeed ‘unconsciously incompetent’

    Thanks.

    Think please before you let loose and start with the labels, your ‘4 years in the industry’ are actually very little, when for most professions that barely gets you out of college (and in Architecture would see you barely half way to a Part 3).

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