What are the factors that continue to work today, leaving women without access to this sector? A study on the absence of women from construction site jobs provides answers to these and other questions.
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A study on the absence of women in constructionthe most masculinized sector of the job market, and winner of the Emakunde publishing competition, exposes the false beliefs and barriers associated with on-site work.
This research, titled “Women on the job site”, continues real testimonials of different women in the sector to get to know the real situation and to inquire about the reasons for this lack of women.
Building. Photo: Pixabay.
According to this research, construction is a niche market systematically close the door to women for the fact that it is, while at the same time acting as a fortress of a male subculture that protects itself from invaders and fuels the industry’s prevailing hegemonic masculinity.
Construction and especially jobs on the construction site are today the most masculinized sector and in which there is less evolution or trend towards presence more balanced between men and women.
The presence of women in the workplace to this day causes confusion that can often lead to resistance, non-acceptance, questioning, disqualification, harassment and, in the worst cases, bullying.
Source: “Women in the workplace”.
The study concludes that a significant change in image and inertia is needed to attract and retain women in construction, a sector that faces a serious labor problem.
Likewise, it ensures that facilitating women’s access to jobs on construction sites would help to dismantle stereotypes and thus to work and wager firmly in a labor market without gender bias, to reduce occupational segregation and to promote a fairer and more equal.
A woman at work. Photo: Pixabay.
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