Women are making significant strides in reshaping the ground engineering sector by challenging longstanding stereotypes at all levels. However, the journey is not without its challenges, writes Terra Firma Group’s Paula Grgich.
For more than three years now, GE has been involved in the BBC’s 50:50 Project aiming for more equal gender representation in media coverage.
Women's toilets on construction sites are often locked, used as store cupboards or not provided at all. A new campaign to improve women's access to welfare facilities aims to change this.
Women across the ground engineering sector are supporting a campaign that aims to change the law around personal protective equipment (PPE) provision for female employees in workplaces.
GE has extended the deadline for nominations for its Top 20 Women in Ground Engineering initiative until 26 January.
GE magazine is accepting nominations for its Top 20 Women in Ground Engineering initiative until 19 January.
GE magazine is now accepting nominations for its new Top 20 Women in Ground Engineering initiative.
As the industry celebrates International Women in Engineering Day 2023, GE can reveal that 80% of women it has surveyed have been provided with personal protective equipment (PPE) that does not fit them at some point in their career.
Breaking Ground’s latest episode discusses a new support network and community that has been set up for women in construction, quarrying and mining.
Construction sites will now need to provide sanitary disposal facilities in women’s toilets, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said.
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