GENDER equality in the construction industry will take nearly 200 years to achieve at the current rate of progress, the GMB revealed today.
According to statistics presented to the union’s annual conference in Brighton, it could be the year 2194 before the number of women in construction will equal men.
There are an estimated 60,972 more women working in construction than in 2009.
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns