Hey, I'm Tasha, and I'm new to Tooting, I'm a Chartered Built Infrastructure Surveyor, and I'm keen to learn more about new Construction technologies and strategies, but also happy to talk about and champion Diversity in Construction, and how to change career from any background whatsoever.
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@Tasha Hi, great to have you. I'd love to hear your thoughts about diversity in the construction world. I would expect that is an industry struck harder than many others in that regard.
@freemo Yes, it was difficult enough to break into as a woman from a musical background, but ethnicity is really poorly underrepresented and encouraged, as is LGBT+. It's getting better and companies are beginning to encourage, but there's still a long way to go. Myself and a few other ladies have started a group called the #SurveyingSisterhood which is to support other women, but more than that, to celebrate and raise up other diversity groups too. Visibility and celebration
@nerthos @freemo Oh, absolutely, I always thought that myself, but the sad fact is, these things never work that way. The best way we've found so far is simply to support everyone, get visibility for the differences and learn to embrace them and accept them for what they are. Not try and erase the differences. For example, if you have 20 people in the room who are all the same and have the same opinions, how will you ever look at a problem from a different PoV?
@freemo @nerthos There is a lot more to it than that, but essentially, that's the core of it. To remove the fear of the different, to remove unconscious bias by simply showing all the good work that everyone does, and that means men too, and eventually, such things become normal. And equality then reigns. But we're quite a long way off from that right now