scholarly journals Identifying Barriers to Retaining Female Professionals in Engineering and Construction Organisations

10.29007/pv2l ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Naismith ◽  
Sandi Roberston ◽  
John Tookey
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Female Professionals ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Balance Family

The construction and engineering industry remains to be one of the most male dominated industries in the world, with between 10 and 25 percent of its employees being female. It is believed that only 62% of women who pursued engineering stayed within the industry. Research suggests that the biggest hurdle the industry needs to overcome is changing the culture within the industry. For engineering and construction organisations gender diversity adds to the opportunity to engage a more diverse range of skills and ideas, with gender diverse organisations being 15% more likely to outperform their respective industry median. It also enables organisations to match the projected more gender diverse client teams and reflect the stakeholders in the communities they serve. The aim of the study is to provide a better understanding of how do we attract and retain female professionals within the construction industry and ensure gender diversity within senior leadership teams. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted with 3 females and 1 male working within the construction and engineering industry. The results suggest that the majority of interviewees joined the construction industry due to the encouragement of a family member and all agreed that having a gender diverse team was important as it creates for more diverse communication with the clients and stakeholders. However the difficult workplace culture and stereo typing still exists particularly around the need to have to work long hours which creates difficulties when trying to balance family and career.

The Co-Occurrence of Autism and Gender Diversity

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
Jill C. Fodstad ◽  
Rebecca Elias ◽  
Shivali Sarawgi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Nonbinary Gender ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

Gender diversity refers to gender expressions and/or gender identity experiences that vary from the common experiences of gender. Gender-diverse people may be gender nonconforming, gender nonbinary, gender fluid, gender exploring, transgender, and so forth. Some gender-diverse individuals experience gender dysphoria and/or gender incongruence and may require gender-affirming supports, including gender-affirming medical interventions. The co-occurrence of autism and gender diversity has been highlighted in a series of studies internationally as well as through rich community expressions. Studies in gender-referred individuals reveal high rates of autism traits as well as high rates of existing autism diagnoses. Studies in autistic populations reveal greater gender diversity characteristics. The long-term course of gender diversity in autistic individuals is poorly understood. Clinical guidelines have been developed for adolescents with the co-occurrence, but much work remains: No gender-related measures have been developed and tested for use in neurodiverse populations, no programs exist to support gender-diverse neurodiverse adults, and little is known about co-occurring mental health profiles, risks, or protective factors for people with the co-occurrence. The inclusion of this chapter on co-occurring autism and gender diversity within a book on “co-occurring psychiatric conditions” is problematic, because gender diversity is not a “psychiatric condition,” but instead a form of human diversity. The diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria is useful only insomuch as it allows individuals to obtain necessary gender-related supports. The authors’ choice to include this chapter in this book reflects a compromise, motivated by the need for educating both autism and gender specialists in this common co-occurrence.

Ontology-Based Interorganizational Knowledge Management in Sustainable Construction Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6339-6343
Author(s):  
Guang Bin Wang ◽  
Gui You He ◽  
Li Bian
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Traditional Construction ◽  
Industry Needs

Due to the great negative impact, the construction industry needs to undergo a paradigm shift from traditional construction to sustainable construction. To reach the goal of sustainable development, the construction industry needs to intensify its efforts to move to a knowledge intensive mode. Based on the analysis of e-Cognos and the concept of ontology, this paper proposes that e-Cognos ontology can be applied in the development of sustainable construction process ontology, which is a key part of knowledge management system (KMS). Following this, the application process of ontology-based KMS is analyzed using IDEF0 modeling method. Finally, this paper analyzes interorganizational collaboration model in sustainable project.

Board Gender Diversity and Cost of Debt: Do Firm Size and Industry type matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabiatu Kamil ◽  
Kingsley Opoku Appiah
Keyword(s):  
Firm Size ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industry Type ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Board Gender Diversity

Purpose This study aims to investigate the nexus between gender-diverse boards and cost of debt in the developing economies context. Specifically, the authors examine whether firm size moderates the relationship between female board representation and cost of debt, regardless of the industry type. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data from 17 non-financial listed Ghanaian firms over the period 2007–2017, ordinary least square, two-stage least square and generalised method of moments estimations to test the hypothesis. Findings The authors find that board gender diversity is positively related to cost of debt. Further evidence suggests the interaction of firm size and board gender diversity displays a negative association with cost of debt. Practical implications The study evidence suggests larger non-manufacturing firms with gender-diverse boards attract lower cost of capital in an environment with lax enforcement of rules and regulations in corporate governance. Social implications Lenders consider the size and industry of firms in pricing debt. This has implications on UN Goal 5, highlighting that shareholders of larger non-manufacturing firms benefit immensely from board gender diversity in the context of debt. Originality/value The authors contribute to the board gender diversity and cost of debt literature by demonstrating that firm size and industry type matter in the developing economies context.

Method of Metallurgical Production Waste Processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 1055-1060
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Barakhtenko
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Composites ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Polyvinyl Chloride ◽  
Electrostatic Precipitator ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Dispersed Filler ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Functional Fillers

The modern development of the construction industry needs to find ways to create new competitive materials. Such materials are polymer composites, since the range of their application can be wide, due to the possibility of regulating their technical properties. This work presents a research on the development and production of polymer composites and products from them with the improved mechanical properties by adding finely dispersed techno-genic mineral raw materials as a functional filler. As a dispersed filler of the polyvinyl chloride composition, waste from the production of refined silicon was used, which is dust from the entrainment of furnaces captured by an electrostatic precipitator. To predict the characteristics of the materials obtained, the applicability criteria of techno-genic raw materials in the polyvinyl chloride composition are studied. Studies of the mechanical and operational properties of the obtained composites have confirmed the possibility of using techno-genic raw materials as functional fillers that affect the mechanics, durability, and also significantly reduce the cost of finished products.

scholarly journals Diversity and safety on campus @ Western: Heterosexism and cissexism in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Asquith ◽  
Tania Ferfolia ◽  
Brooke Brady ◽  
Benjamin Hanckel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Discrimination, harassment and violence can vitiate staff and students’ experiences of education and work. Although there is increasing knowledge about these experiences in primary and secondary education, very little is known about them in higher education. This paper draws from landmark research that examines the interpersonal, educational and socio-cultural perspectives that prevail about sexuality and gender diversity on an Australian university campus. In this paper we focus on three aspects of the broader research findings: the heterosexism and cissexism experienced by sexuality and gender diverse students and staff at the university; their actions and responses to these experiences; and the impact of these experiences on victims. The research demonstrates that although the university is generally safe, sexuality and gender diverse students and staff experience heterosexist and cissexist discrimination, which can have negative ramifications on their workplace and learning experiences.

scholarly journals Standardized design in Western Siberia late in the 1950–60s

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
S. S. Dukhanov
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Design Projects

The paper deals with the problems of standardized design in civil construction in the cities of Western Siberia during the architectural reform late in the 1950–60s and is based on archival sources.First, the development continuity of design and civil engineering industry was broken that time, thereby reducing to nothing the accumulated positive experience in standardized design and sharply limited the adaptation of design projects to regional conditions. Second, the methods of standardizing generated by the architectural reform were based on the universal factors and numerical criteria. That approach was aimed at centralizing the management of the design and construction industry, but did not take into account the leading regional factors and sharpened their adverse impact. It was impossible to develop projects on this basis that would meet local climatic and socio-economic conditions. Large local design organizations created during the architectural reform were forced to develop standardized projects for the conditions of Western Siberia, contrary to the main trends of the architectural reform. As a result, research and development played catch-up the civil construction and prolonged until the early 1970s.

scholarly journals Women on corporate boards. The case of ’gender quotas’ in Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Pastore ◽  
Silvia Tommaso
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Substantial Progress

This paper investigates whether gender quotas have had success so far in their primary goal of reducing gender disparities in Italian corporate boards. Debate about gender equality on boards gained momentum and global prominence over the last years attracting attention of both researchers and practitioners worldwide. Despite a remarkable progress in education and their participation in the labor market, women still face large barriers to advance into upper management and boardrooms and gaps remain. Women are still under-represented in senior executive and board positions worldwide even if there is wide variation across countries. The present is a qualitative study that aims to contribute to the ongoing international debate about gender diversity on corporate boards (or lack thereof), providing current evidence from Italy, four years after the entry into force of Law 120/2011, establishing legislated quotas in order to ensure gender-balanced corporate boards. Using the samples of Italian listed companies and government-controlled companies tracked by Consob and Cerved respectively, findings show a substantial progress of female representation in Italian corporate boards (including governing and auditing boards) over the period 2008-2015 and reflect the extent to which women are shattering the glass ceiling, right before and after the implementation of the new (although controversial) gender quotas regulation. However, even though the number of women who sit on corporate boards has increased, it is necessary to ensure that the appointment of women is a board’s genuine intention to become gender diverse and more effectiveness rather than evidence of a result driven by tokenism, designed to enhance corporate reputation and image.

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2003 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-169
Author(s):  
M. Barton ◽  
Andrew Bond ◽  
M. E. Andrews ◽  
J. McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Foundation Engineering ◽  
Alluvial Rivers ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Slope Engineering ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Glacial Tills

Women in Global Professional Services Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 583-602
Author(s):  
Daria Panina
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Professional Service Firms ◽  
Organizational Principle ◽  
Professional Services Firms ◽  
Female Professionals

Professional services firms (PSFs) have traditionally relied on professional partnerships as an organizational principle. This system was developed more than a century ago, when women did not actively pursue careers in professional services. Professional partnerships are very resistant to change and have managed to preserve their main features for decades. Their formal and informal practices still have exclusionary effects on female professionals. However, professional services firms are increasingly facing a deregulated, competitive, and very dynamic environment and are pressured by the labor market and client firms to rethink their stance on gender diversity. This chapter presents an overview of the management practices in professional services firms and outlines the major changes in their environment. Recent trends in changing management practices in the professional services sector and their impact on female professionals are analyzed. Implications for theory building and future research on management practices in professional service firms are discussed.

Board gender diversity and US corporate bonds

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 771-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee M. Oyotode-Adebile ◽  
Zubair Ali Raja
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Propensity Score ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Board Gender Diversity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Women Participation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of board gender diversity on bond terms and bondholders’ returns. Design/methodology/approach The authors perform pooled OLS regression, simultaneous regressions and propensity score matching to a panel data set of bond data for 319 US firms from 2007 to 2014. Findings The authors find that firms with gender-diverse boards have lower yields, higher ratings, larger issue size and shorter maturity. They also find that bondholders require fewer returns from firms with gender-diverse boards. However, the effect is more pronounced when women, constitutes at least 29.67 percent of the board. Originality/value This analysis supplements the findings that board gender diversity is essential for bondholders. It shows that bondholders should look at board gender diversity as a criterion to invest because bonds issued by firms with gender-diverse board have less risk. For practitioners, this study shows that more women participation on boards leads to a reduction in borrowing costs.

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