International Women's Day: What is it like to be a woman in trades?
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) states that only a measly 1% of tradespeople are women, with this percentage hardly seeing any change in a decade.*
In honour of International Women's Day, we spoke to the women in the 1% who are passionate about their roles and finding out exactly what they do, the challenges they face and why they got into the industry to begin with. By giving women in trades the spotlight, hopefully we can inspire fellow women to try their hand at something they may not have considered doing previously, purely because they didn't feel they looked the part.
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