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3.4 Skills/training Statistics Table 1.4 Compares The Numbers Of Males And ...
3.4 Skills/Training Statistics
Table 1.4 compares the numbers of males and females who took part in job-related training in different professions over a period of four weeks in 1998
Table 1.4 Source (Labour Force Survey 1998)
Fig 1.7 Source : Table 1.6
Fig 1.7 shows that there were more females in construction training in the year 1998 than there were in the professions of Agriculture, and Energy and Water supply which are seen as traditionally male professions. However this statistic fell well below the numbers of women in training for manufacturing, transport, banking, and public administration.
Number of First-Year Trainees broken down by Gender and Age, 2004/2005 (Great Britain)
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Under 18 18 and Over Total
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Male FemaleMale Female MaleFemale
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18,924385 25,774988 44,698 1373
(41%) (1%) (56%)(2%)(97%) (3%)
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Table 1.5 Source: CITB Constructionskills Trainees Numbers Survey 2004/2005
National Guidance Research Forum
The statistics show that women are being consistently under represented in all areas of the construction industry. The construction workforce is 90% male compared with 54% of the total workforce. According to CITB-ConstructionSkills, the construction industry needs to recruit and retain over 88,000 trained people each year for the next five years. The industry will have to recruit from non-traditional groups, with women and ethnic minorities expected to account for half its growth in the workforce over the next ten years. The majority of these new recruits will replace workers who will be retiring. While the number of women in the construction industry is slowly increasing, they are greatly under-represented, particularly in the trades and crafts.
In construction women account for:
?approximately 10% of those employed in the construction industry
?30% of all non-manual employment
?1% of all manual employment
?11.6% of all professionals and managers in the construction industry
?20% of undergraduates of construction related degree courses
?2% of all sole traders
?7% of entrepreneurs running micro-enterprises employing less than 10
?81% of those working in secretarial and trades
Source: (National Guidance Research Forum )
This makes the manual sectors of the industry the most gender imbalanced in the UK economy. Because of changes in working practices (e.g. office staff increasingly undertake their own clerical work and administration), the number of traditionally female occupations, like secretarial, clerical and administrative jobs, are decreasing.
CITB-ConstructionSkills measures the number of people entering construction training on an annual basis.
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