Women Can Build: An initiative to foster gender equality in the construction sector

13 students males between 15 and 20 years old, discuss about the Potential prejudices about gender work in the construction sector

“To the women who want to be part of the construction, I would say to them to have courage, that this is a job opportunity”

The introductory course to the sector for unemployed women, ‘We build too’, is back

Women Can Build is presented in Portugal as an innovative project for the activity of trainers

“I think that many young women don’t think of doing a traineeship in the construction industry. I probably wouldn’t have thought of it either if I hadn’t seen the opportunity in the family business”

A group of 10 women take the pilot course ‘Women in the construction industry, Let’s talk about it!’

“I think the prejudice of men on the construction site whistling after girls is still prevalent in people’s minds”

“My father runs a master plasterer’s business. My grandfather and even my great-grandfather were plasterers. In primary school, I already made the decision to continue in this line”

“I couldn’t guess where my path would lead me, but I wanted to take a direction that wasn’t so typical for a woman”