Inspiring Women

Returning to the construction industry after taking a long career break to start a family provoked mixed emotions for me, of both trepidation and excitement.

Finding the right opportunity wasn’t straightforward. I was unsure how things would play out after so long out of engineering consultancy. However, it’s worked out brilliantly.…

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…

Manchester-based McGoff Construction has appointed its first new female director in 45 years.

The firm’s new director of support services and business operations is Emma James, who becomes the first female director since the business was co-founded by Ethna McGoff 45 years ago. She said: “As the business continues to see steady growth, the more…

This industry is brilliant at solving problems. 

But one particular problem has been apparent for more than 20 years now – and it’s still unresolved. According to the Office for National Statistics, there are only 36,000 more women working in construction today than there were 20 years ago – when it…

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…

Men continue to dominate top jobs among the UK’s 20 largest contractors with seven out of every eight executive board roles held by male employees, CN can reveal.

Analysis of the top 20 contractors by turnover in the CN100 rankings shows just 13 of their 107 executive board members – 12 per cent –…

This year’s CN Talent Awards are recognising eight incredible people in the industry who have made the Inspire Me shortlist.

The CN Talent Awards this week announced the shortlists across 15 categories that aim to celebrate remarkable achievements in recruitment, training, diversity and skills. This year’s event includes a new addition: the Inspire…

Our industry has a voracious appetite for skilled workers.

Because construction and infrastructure underpin both a functioning society and economic growth, they offer a tremendous range of roles in which people can build rewarding lifelong careers. Yet we all know that the industry faces a skills shortage that is set to…

Women occupy just 4 per cent of senior roles in the UK’s biggest listed construction firms, a new report has found.

The Woman Count report on female representation in FTSE 350 firms found that women made up just 4 per cent of all P&L positions at the 20 largest listed construction…

Our Women in Construction report surveyed more than 5,500 workers across the construction, property and engineering industries, and the results were reflective of a sector where just 12 per cent are women.

We found that 43 per cent of businesses do not monitor the difference between men and women’s pay and that just…