The end of the year is always the time we look back at what we have achieved and make resolutions about what we want to achieve for the year ahead. Taking a stock-take of 2018, a few figures stood out for me.

January gave us Building’s survey on women in construction – with the alarming statistics that 56% of female respondents had experienced sexual harassment and 33% been discriminated against on the grounds of sex in the previous 12 months. The gender pay gap report in April confirmed what we already knew: that most women in the industry work in low-paid roles, and the number of women working in most parts of the industry (architecture being the notable exception) has barely changed in the 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act was passed.

I can’t be the only one who sees these not as a series of problems for our industry to solve but as different manifestations of the same issue 

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