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4 %, While Secretarial And Corporate Management Positions Are Occupied By ...

4 %, while secretarial and corporate management positions are occupied by 20.8 % and 12.9% respectively. Transport drivers at 0.2% was the lowest statistic, with Health associates and Managers at 0.3 % and 0.4%.
3.2RICS and RIBA female membership
In Architecture and Surveying statistics have been slowly increasing. Currently women account for 11% of RIBA chartered architects (U.W.E). The membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects has been rising over the last ten years from 26,513 in 1983/4 (5.6%) to 27,940 in 1991/2 (7%).
According to statistics by the RICS of 110,000 chartered surveyors worldwide, only 10 % are women (www.prospects.ac.uk). When comparing total membership of the R.I.C.S and the R.I.B.A to that of other professions connected with the construction industry it was noted that these two bodies had the second and third highest number of members (see Fig 1.0).

Fig 1.0 Membership of Professional bodies I.O.H = Insititute of Housing; R.T.P.I = Royal Town Planning Institute; R.I.B.A = Royal Institute of British Architects; R.I.C.S = Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; I.C.A = Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Information taken from Marion Brion's publication Women in the Housing Service (1995, p.187)
However, when these numbers were broken down into percentages of women membership the figures changed considerably with the R.I.C.S and the R.I.B.A having the lowest percentages of women. (See Figs 1.2 and 1.3).
Table 1.1: Women Percentages for Table 1.2: Women Percentages for 1983/41991/2
Fig 1.2 Membership of Professional bodies I.O.H = Insititute of Housing; R.T.P.I = Royal Town Planning Institute; R.I.B.A = Royal Institute of British Architects; R.I.C.S = Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; I.C.A = Institute of Chartered Accountants. (Brion 1995, p.187)


Fig 1.3 Membership of Professional bodies I.O.H = Insititute of Housing; R.T.P.I = Royal Town Planning Institute; R.I.B.A = Royal Institute of British Architects; R.I.C.S = Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; I.C.A = Institute of Chartered Accountants. (Brion 1995, p.187)
3.3 Salary Statistics

Table 1.3
Data from ‘Raising the Ratio: the surveying profession as a career.'
Fig 1.4 shows salaries in thousands for men and women in the UK ascending from less than £10,000 to greater than £100,000. Source: table 1.3
Self Employed in the Construction Industry by Gender

Fig 1.5 Employment in the UK Construction industry by Gender. Source: Table 1.5

Comparison of number of Self Employed women to number of female Employees

Fig 1.6 Source: Labour Force Survey, office for National Statistics. 2004
Statistics concerning flexible working policies from the RICS raising the ratio survey found that only 30.6% of their respondents said that their employer had a formal flexible working policy in place, with only 12.


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