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What more can be done to attract women into Construction?

After significant improvement, numbers of women entering construction have started to stagnate. What are the reasons for this and what can we do to improve? Getting more women into construction has been a long-term ambition for the construction industry. Even though there has been a lot of work ... http://talk.build/blogs/15/359/what-more-can-be-done-to-attract-women-into-construction

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