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Women Builders |
04 Feb 2009 |
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 Encouraging more women to join the construction industry.
To date, Bob the Builder has no female counterpart in the toy box. But out there on the building site more and more women are entering what up to now you might have thought of as a 'man’s world'. Around three years ago, £20 million was actually put into training women to become construction workers; and even now, despite recession, with a prediction of major skills shortages in the UK construction industry, trained women are going to be more in demand to take their places alongside the men. And there are courses and initiatives especially designed to attract women. Judi Herman visited the carpentry workshop at Bedford College, where Senior Trainer Steve Hawkins was setting student Nastassia Rose her next project.
On 6 February 2009, Bedford College are holding 'Women Into Construction', a one-day event to attract women of all ages, from girls as young as fourteen, onto a range of courses in the industry. Women into Construction at Bedford CollegeDisclaimer
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