No More Softly, Softly: Women in the Construction Workforce
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The chapter represents a review of the situation for women in construction and the debates and research surrounding this. Whilst focused largely on the UK, examples are provided from major projects across the world where women have been successfully integrated through different equality measures, including contract compliance. These include Heathrow Terminal 5, the UK Olympics, Crossrail, the Vancouver Highway and different schemes in the United States. An historical account is also given of successful integration in the past, and the rationale behind this. The chapter then critically assesses the arguments given for improving the low participations of women in construction, including the business case. It then addresses different obstacles to gender diversity: education and training; recruitment and retention; employment and working conditions; and the organizational environment. Finally, it concludes by outlining measures that could be taken to achieve success and the new opportunities offered by low energy construction for opening up the sector to women.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it