"Call for women in construction", 10 Dec 2015
One of the region’s foremost champions of women in construction is using a career milestone with Midas Construction to call for more women to consider a career in the industry. As business development coordinator, Tessa Purdy is involved with a number of schemes across the region to show women and young girls that a career in construction is “fulfilling, well paid and rewarding”…And now she is toasting five years with Midas Construction, a company she champions for helping her not only learn and progress but also for its drive towards equality…“There is a real push to get women into construction because there is no reason why they can’t do the same jobs as men.”…One of the highlights of her engagement role has been when a group of young Plymouth schoolgirls were invited to spend an afternoon looking round the city’s multi-million pound Millfields office development…“It was really rewarding to see that we had opened up a whole new world of opportunities for these young girls, especially as construction had been an area that had never crossed their minds before.”…
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