Assisting more women to enter the construction industry is critical to meeting workplace shortages and addressing the housing crisis, Australia’s peak building employer association has advised. Master ...

The construction and mining industries have long been considered industries for men. Indeed, 2022 data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that construction and mining are the two most male ...

Women looking to land a job on the tools have been forced to shorten their names to appear more masculine in order to get a foot in the door.  A recent parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s Vocationa ...

You've probably heard that plenty of times before. But what does it really mean, and how do you go about activating your network?   Your personal network is not just a collection of contacts, but a vi ...

Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways wo ...

Construction is one of the largest industries in Australia, employing about 1.26 million people. This represents 9.2% of the national workforce. And yet, it also has the lowest percentage of women’s p ...

It’s sad to say, but the contribution of women to the built environment of Australia hasn’t been particularly well documented. We’ve dipped into the records to list twelve women whose input into Austr ...

These are the incredible women turning gender stereotypes on their heads and helping build Australia’s newest city – just a stone’s throw from Penrith. Inspirational women are working across all areas ...

A major report has been released which makes key recommendations to boost the number of women working in construction across NSW.  The Building Commission NSW Women in Construction Report provides inf ...