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Apr 14 2021

Constructing Rainbows - Returning to the workplace and a bigger Gender Pay Gap

Inclusion update for the Built Environment industry
Newsletter 15: Returning to the workplace and a bigger Gender Pay Gap
Constructing Rainbows advises built environment organisations who have an aim of making our industry inclusive for all. To find out more visit www.constructingrainbows.co.uk
This newsletter will provide you with some updates on what others are doing, both within the built environment and in other industries.
Covid drives big differences in employers’ gender pay gaps | News | Building

Cost-cutting measures have penalised women at some firms while elsewhere wage disparity has narrowed
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This Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management Returning to the Workplace research shows that 44% of employees are expecting some kind of hybrid working to continue after Covid.

66% of 18-24 year olds would consider looking for a new job if not offered flexible working.
'Autism isn’t an illness, you don’t outgrow it, and there's no need for a cure' | Institution of Civil Engineers

Environment Agency engineer Ayo Sokale makes a deeply personal revelation during this year's World Autism Awareness Week, debunking common myths along the way.  
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Morgan highlights the work of the now dormant Women’s Design Service, a coalition of British feminist planners, architects, and urban designers who came together in the 1980s to research and lobby for improving the UK’s built environment for women.
Bam set to introduce flexible working on sites in post-pandemic shake-up | News | Building

Initiative follows trials carried out with specialist workplace consultant
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Piling 2020: Time to call out offensive ‘careless language and behaviours’ in industry | Ground Engineering
Speaking at the Piling 2020 conference about social progression within the sector, Steve Hadley discussed what can be done to address the lack of diversity in the industry.
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In this paper academics at University of York set out new findings which demonstrate that individuals with autism form different types of attachment towards buildings and places and create and respond to heritage values in different ways to neurotypical people.
New Zealand brings in bereavement leave for miscarriages and stillbirths | New Zealand | The Guardian
Should this require government legislation, or should it be company policy anyway? What does your business do for those families that suffer a miscarriage?
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A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal | McKinsey

Fathers who take leave help their partners, their families, and themselves. In this era of employee mental-health challenges, companies should take notice.
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In times of crisis, companies’ priorities are bound to shift. I think it is safe to say we also see the very best and the very worst of behaviours rise to the surface.
UKREiiF Annual Property Event
UKREiiF's have just launched an annual three-day event bringing the UK's public and private sector together to accelerate economic growth and investment. Diversity and inclusion will be at the core of this event, and I will be joining the Advisory Panel.
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This Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) Podcast discusses LGBT+ topics, with guests Jyoti Sehdev (Chartered Engineer and Group Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Lead at Costain), Richard Totty (Senior Design Engineer at Bachy Soletanche and Ambassador for Stonewall) and Fiona Connor (Lead Project Geologist at Applied Geology and InterEngineering’s representative at the Ground Forum)

To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day we will have a conversation with Margot Slattery - Global Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Sodexo

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