Why the pandemic is encouraging more women to work in construction

Construction was one of the only industries where the number of jobs held by women increased during the pandemic. Lucy Barnard finds out why and what employers can do to recruit more women during the “she-cession”

Holly Price, a director at British demolition firm Keltbray, struggles to remember her working life before the pandemic.

“I don’t know how I managed to physically get to so many meetings and to travel so much,” says the director of skills and communities, an explosives engineer by training who, until…

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