Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry

Abdussalam Shibani; Messaoud Saidani; Dyaa Hassan; Araz Agha; Marwa Alghodi; Noof Alawanati; Nawal Gherbal; Mohamed Abduelmula

Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry

Abdussalam Shibani
, Messaoud Saidani
, Dyaa Hassan
, Araz Agha
, Marwa Alghodi
, Noof Alawanati
, Nawal Gherbal
, Mohamed Abduelmula

University of Wolverhampton
Northumbria University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper raises various challenges and barriers faced by women in UK construction industry. Women working in construction industry are observed to be very low when compared to men. It was observed that currently women work force in construction sector is less than 15%, of which most of them are observed to be working in planning and office based jobs. This paper discusses about various barriers and challenges faced by current women in construction sector focusing on UK. Various issues and barriers faced by women have been debated. Lack of awareness to join construction industry is also being one of
the major barrier. From the research study, it was observed that women working are mostly into nontechnical skills but it is because of difficulty to balance work life balance due to lack of flexible work hours. Lack of these will not let women balance between family needs and fruitful career. This study helped to focus and work towards various recommendations which help to improve work atmosphere.
These suggestions help for better women retention and contribution in construction sector which is known to be male dominated sector. Few of them being creating better training towards equality, creating
awareness at young age and encouraging to enter construction industry. Recruiting more women also
encourages towards a better women employment rate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021
Publisher	IEOM Society
Pages	2832-2846
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7923-6124-1
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2021
Event	11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management - virtual, Singapore Duration: 7 Mar 2021 → 11 Mar 2021 Conference number: 11 http://ieomsociety.org/singapore2021/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
ISSN (Electronic)	2169-8767

Conference

Conference	11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Abbreviated title	IEOM
Country/Territory	Singapore
Period	7/03/21 → 11/03/21
Internet address	http://ieomsociety.org/singapore2021/

Keywords

women
Barriers
challenges
commitments
safety
training
site job
Employee
recruitment
construction industry
Women
Site Job
Training
Recruitment construction industry
Challenges
Commitments
Safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Strategy and Management
Management Science and Operations Research

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Shibani, A., Saidani, M., Hassan, D., Agha, A., Alghodi, M., Alawanati , N., Gherbal, N., & Abduelmula, M. (2021). Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021 (pp. 2832-2846). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management). IEOM Society. http://www.ieomsociety.org/singapore2021/papers/513.pdf

Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry. / Shibani, Abdussalam; Saidani, Messaoud; Hassan, Dyaa et al.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021. IEOM Society, 2021. p. 2832-2846 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Shibani, A, Saidani, M, Hassan, D, Agha, A, Alghodi, M, Alawanati , N, Gherbal, N & Abduelmula, M 2021, Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry. in Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM Society, pp. 2832-2846, 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
, Singapore, 7/03/21. <http://www.ieomsociety.org/singapore2021/papers/513.pdf>

Shibani A, Saidani M, Hassan D, Agha A, Alghodi M, Alawanati N et al. Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021. IEOM Society. 2021. p. 2832-2846. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

Shibani, Abdussalam ; Saidani, Messaoud ; Hassan, Dyaa et al. / Challenges and Barriers to Women in the UK Construction Industry. Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2021. IEOM Society, 2021. pp. 2832-2846 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

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