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We attended the launch of the Smith Institute's paper "building the future: women in construction" in March which outlined the challenges faced by women in the construction industry.
This was a detailed and considered analysis of how women are underrepresented in one of the UK's largest industries despite the numbers of women in full time employment.
This was, in many respects, a surprise as we have seen the increase in female graduates and trainees and yet we still face the problem that women are not making their way along the career ladder in construction.
Certainly for our generation it was hoped that the talk of glass ceilings was a thing of the past given that in our respective professions: law and architecture, we have seen significant numbers of female practitioners working on high profile projects both in the UK...