BBC News took interviews of women in the construction industry who want to crush the stereotype’s made against women in this industry!
Stacey Sowden works as a steel fixer, in a male-dominated industry being the “only female in her team”, as the construction industry only have 13% of their workers being women.
Working on nuclear reactors, in 2017 reports show 28% of the civil nuclear industry were women, which has fallen to below 15% for engineering roles.
Ms Hussain is a trainee reactor operator, who will soon be a fully a qualified reactor operator. When Ms Hussain stared in the nuclear industry she was one of 3 women out of 200 employees. “As a woman and person of color it has sometimes felt more difficult and feels like a male-dominated world.”
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