Demolishing stereotypes: The women working for gender equality in demolition
08 March 2023
As organisations around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, official figures from around the developed world show that women typically make up less than 15% of the construction workforce and just a tiny proportion of on-site workers. Lucy Barnard speaks to female demolition experts in the US and Europe to find out why and what can be done to improve diversity within the industry.
Jacqueline O’Donovan, managing director of London-based waste management business O’Donovan Waste Disposal, describes the period immediately after she had a baby as the darkest in her career.
Suffering with post-natal depression which left her feeling tearful and unlike herself, O’Donovan, then 31, struggled on without medical help, running the family…
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