Women in Home Building

This year's theme for International Women’s Day (8th March) is #BreakTheBias. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias still makes it difficult for women to move ahead. HBF and the Future Talent Network have created a podcast on unconscious bias, with Helen Moore, Group Director of Orbit Homes. We talk to Helen about what unconscious bias is and how we can help to overcome it within the home building industry. Listen to the podcast here.

8 Mar, 2022

Helen Moore, Group Director of Orbit Homes - Unconscious Bias PODCAST

Leading housebuilder Persimmon Homes has marked International Women’s Day by launching its Target 50 initiative. Target 50 will bring 50 additional female apprentices or technical trainees into construction-related roles across the country this year. The initiative forms part of Persimmon’s 50th anniversary celebrations and supports its commitment to becoming Britain’s leading homebuilder, with quality and customer service at its heart.

For more information about Target 50 or Persimmon Homes careers and training, visit http://www.persimmonhomes.com/target-50

Women into Construction and house builder Hill have been working together to give women one to one advice and guidance, training and work placements. Watch the video below.

WiC Cambridgeshire - Working with Hill from Women into Construction on Vimeo.

Bellway Homes is supporting International Women's Day and has so far raised money for Smart Works, a fantastic charity providing interview clothes and interview training to women in need.

The home builder has also launched a bespoke diversity & Inclusion e-learning module focussing on key themes arising from its 'banter in the workplace' focus groups. They are also launching its very first colleague network called 'Balance' aimed at championing gender equality in the workplace.

St Modwen Homes created a Diversity and Inclusion working group to help achieve its ambition of becoming a more inclusive business. We speak to two members Sezar and Jenna on what they want to achieve at St Modwen and in the Home Building Industry. Read their views here.

HBF has been working with Women into Construction to promote its Remote Mentoring programme. The programme helps potential employees seek mentoring support from those already working in home building. Read Aisha and Anisha's experience here.

Inspiring women from across L&Q have spoken out to share their experiences in male-dominated departments, as International Women’s Day organisers urge us all to ‘choose to challenge’ gender stereotypes. Find out more here.

To mark International Women’s Day and to celebrate women working at Avant Homes, employees from across all levels of the home builder came together to share their proudest moments, challenges and hopes for the future.

Click here to find out more.

Employees at Vistry East Midlands have shown their support for a global campaign aimed at calling out gender bias and inequality. Staff at the housebuilder’s divisional office in Peterborough posted photos of themselves raising a hand for the 'Choose To Challenge' campaign taking place as part of International Women’s Day. Find out more here.

"I've built great working relationships with those on site and i'm constantly developing my practical skills". Find out why Hannah decided an apprenticeship in the home building industry was right for her here. 

McCarthy Stone has over 100 apprentices on programmes in its Construction, Commercial, Development teams, support functions and within our services business. Read an interview with Commercial Administrator, Lauren Smith on her experience as one of the first graduates from McCarthyStone's surveying pathway, here.