Inclusion update for the Built Environment industry
Newsletter 29: Undervaluing exceptional women, youth skills and navigation labelling
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.
Bringing together the industry to create more inclusive workplaces, Building Inclusivity, is a new cross-industry ED&I campaign from ACE. The first webinar in the series discussed what companies should be doing to support their LGBTQ+ colleagues.
Across the world, NaviLens is being used to make cities smarter and more inclusive and to allow users to interact more easily with their environment, in places such as subway stations, bus stops and museums or public buildings. NaviLens tags can be read aloud simply by pointing your phone in the general direction of that tag.
For World Youth Skills Day Fortel hosted a webinar with built environment industry education experts Alison Watson from Design Engineer Construct and Kathryn Lennon-Johnson from Built Environment Skills in Schools, give it a listen here.
The Great Resignation has become the Great Renegotiation. New research identifies five key pools of workers that employers need to attract to fill jobs.
Some really interesting research here about the gender differences around hiring overqualified people, and the assumptions made about people who are a leave risk, and the subsequent retention strategies that are/aren’t put in place.
Some white male leaders don’t feel like they have a role to play in diversity and inclusion efforts, or that they don’t belong in discussions about how to help less privileged people in their organizations. If you want the support of people with privilege – making them allies, rather than enemies – it’s important to offer psychologically safe spaces for white people and privileged people to explore their identities and concerns. Otherwise, you will continue to encounter defensiveness and a lack of full support.
As some of you know I’ve been following the Lionesses around the country in the last few weeks. The results have been great so far, they’ve played excellent football, and are brilliant role models for kids both on and off the pitch.
But this article highlights some of the challenges with a lack of ethnically diverse role models in the team. It highlights that the progress that has been made within the womens game, has left some people behind especially those from a lower socioeconomic background. Hopefully this will be a wake up call to clubs and the national team to be aware of the barriers and do more to break them down.
