Tag Archives: Gender pay gap

Rebecca Owens had just started her final year at a top-rated UK university when she began seriously considering her career options. She was one of only a handful of women on her engineering course, and on track to graduate with a first-class degree. “It was a nice position to be…

Don’t let the gender pay gap put you off if you are a woman interested in a career in the construction industry – there is a bigger story behind the numbers.

Why do I say that? Because I joined Bam Construct UK in 2004 as an HR manager and, in 2017,…

CN’s analysis of the industry’s 100 biggest firms has revealed women are still paid a third less than men on average. Binyamin Ali digs deeper.

The results are in, and for the second year running, the UK’s largest contractors have recorded a 30 per cent gender pay gap in favour of…

When I first saw Construction News’ analysis of the latest gender pay gap figures, my immediate instinct was to question why diversity was still being paid lip service in 2019.

But having further considered the figures, is the short-term lack of improvement in the data really a cause for concern? If…

Gender pay gap scores can be made worse by recruitment of more women into the lower pay quartiles of companies, the HR director of the tier one has said.

Construction News’ revealed on Friday that women at the top 10 construction firms are paid around a third less than men. Last year’s…

Women are still paid a third less (31 per cent) than men at the 10 largest UK contractors, Construction News’ analysis of official gender pay gap data has revealed.

Median pay rates across the 10 largest contractors by turnover, based on the most recent CN100, showed an average 31 per cent…

“Different ethnic groups and genders do not volunteer themselves to join the construction industry in the same percentages as white males do.

“If [they] don’t want to get out on site and build things then you can’t really force them too – so please stop this endless crusade and start reporting…

VolkerWessels UK chief finance officer Naomi Connell knows a thing or two about challenging working environments.

During her time at London Underground, where she was finance director between 2003 and 2009, Ms Connell was part of a campaign to get more women into the organisation and to change working conditions for…

Smaller companies should be forced to report the gender pay gap within their organisations, MPs have said.

The business select committee made the recommendation in its analysis of gender pay gap reporting, suggesting the threshold for companies that have to report be lowered from 250 employees to 50. MPs argued that only half…

Construction has the largest gender pay gap of any UK industry. But behind the data, why is this issue business-critical and what do the experiences of women in the sector reveal about the challenges we must tackle? Lucy Alderson investigates.

Men make up around 87 per cent of the construction industry’s workforce so…