Women, engineering and gender equality: Brazil and United States pathway

Abstract

The task of discussing gender equity in society remains challenging, and new systemic strategies are needed to increase women's participation in leading professions. Two decades after the 21st century, inequality between men and women continues to produce detrimental effects that reproduce past discriminatory behaviors and actions. We argue that

Developing Effective Interventions for Gender Equality in UK Construction Project Organisations

“…The construction sector is often referred to as "project based". Characteristics of project-based organisations (PBOs), such as working in temporary locations (Dainty and Lingard, 2006) and in male-dominated environments (Pinto et al, 2017) expose women to challenging working conditions, difficulties in achieving a work-life balance and incidents of harassment (Fielden et al, 2000;Yates, 2001;Andrade et al, 2020). Attracting women to work in PBOs is also hindered by a perceived bias towards recruiting men over women (Norton et al, 2004;Hickey and Cui, 2020), wage inequality (Shrestha et al, 2020), a lack of craft training (Perrenoud et al, 2020), and a lack of opportunities (Hasan et al, 2021) to enter the sector due to "glass walls", and advancing in the sector due to "glass ceilings" (Oakley, 2000).…”