Christopher Nardi Women In Construction

In the work’s world, the construction industry represents a male dominated industry. In fact, Women in construction are facing a lot of obstacles. They are due to their biological status and work’s inequality. Yet, construction workers have a lot rights whatever their sex or biological status is. This paper will discuss the women in construction, the rights of construction workers as well as their syndicates.

First of all, the construction industry reflects a male-dominated industry. In fact, catalyst.org says, “ In 2015, 11.6% of construction workers in Canada are women.” Christopher Nardi, a journalist for the Journal of Montreal maintains this statistic. Nardi says “ the number of women who work in the construction industry in Quebec increase by 1% in 20 years.” Thereby, Christopher Nardi maintains these facts by mention the CCQ program in 1997. Nardi says that “CCQ program increase the number of women in construction by 1.33%.” This is approximately 2 220 women out of 165 000 construction workers

In Canada’s construction workforce, the number of women working in construction was always low. In 2006, the CAWIC reports “ 12.6% of the Canadian construction industry workforce are women.” In 2008, Kim Arnott reports that “ 144 800 women are working in construction out of 1.2 million Canadians in construction.” In 2015, Statistic Canada collects statistics (in thousands) on employment by industry and sex. Statistics Canada reports, “ In Canada, 158.8 construction workers are women and 1212.9 are men.” Besides, CBC News reports that Quebec has the lowest percentage of women in Canada’s construction in 2013. In fact, Lise Ravary, a journalist from the Journal of Montreal maintains this argument. Ravary says that, “only 2% of construction workers in Quebec are women.” Why the percentage of women in construction in Canada (especially in Quebec) is that low? In effect, Christopher Nardi points out the answer to this question with a statistic from the CNS. In