AUSTRALIA
Driving Gender Diversity in Construction: Mapping Exisiting Driving Gender Diversity in Construction: Mapping Exisiting Policies Through the Behavioral Change Wheel Framework Policies Through the Behavioral Change Wheel Framework The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University, Australia.) 2025.
Women in Male-Dominated Industries: A Toolkit of Strategies. Australian Human Rights Commission. 2013.
SALT: Supporting and Linking Tradeswomen
Tradeswomen Australia – Empowering Women in Trades
CANADA
Building it Green – Climate Literacy for Tradespeople, by Tradespeople, CBTU 2024
Building it Green – Climate Literacy for Tradespeople, by Tradespeople, CBTU 2024 (in French)
The Competitive Advantage: A Business Case for Hiring Women in the Skilled Trades and Technical Professions, 2015, The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
Trade HERizons, Women’s Network PEI: a project designed to increase the number of women in non-traditional trades and technology occupations on PEI.
Sexual Safety of Women in Construction, ThinkAthena, 2021
A ROADMAP TO SUPPORTING WOMEN IN THE TRADES, Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, 2019
The State of Women in Canada, Government of Canada Construction Sector Council, 2010
Rough Trades, BC Business, 2019
Enhancing the Retention and Advancement of Women in Trades in British Columbia: Final Report, 2017
Using Balance to Build: Supporting Gender Diversity in Newfoundland and Labrador Construction Trades 1990–2017
GREAT BRITAIN
Women in Construction, Wood and Forestry: a Resource Toolkit for Gender Equality at Work 2023
Buying Social Justice Through Procurement: an equality and diversity toolkit 2023
Women On The Tools: A research document into women in construction 2022
Under-representation by Gender and Race in Apprenticeships: Research summary, UK, Newton and Williams, Institute for Employment Studies, 2013. The Trades Union Congress (TUC)
Women into Construction, an independent not-for-profit organization that promotes gender equality in construction in the UK.
Percentage of women in skilled trades shows little change in a decade, Construction News, 18 March 2022, by Tiya Thomas-Alexander
UNITE THE UNION
Tackling apprenticeship gender inequality
HOLLOWAY PRISON
Reclaim Holloway, campaigning for a Women’s Building to be built on the site of the largest women’s prison in Western Europe. Holloway was closed in 2016.
Community Plan for Holloway, an independent campaign working to ensure the Islington community is at the heart of the redevelopment of Holloway Prison.
“It’s a Women’s Centre on the site of a women’s prison. Why would we let women design it?” London in Bits, July 14, 2021
”Who Owns the Legacy of a Women’s Prison?” Anna Russell, The New Yorker, Sept 28, 2021
INDIA
Archana Women’s Center – power point sharing the almost 20 years of empowering women into economic stability and societal equality Empowering Women Power Point
INTERNATIONAL
Women In Construction: Towards a more equal, diverse, and inclusive built environment sector Chapter contributions comprise scientific evidence from Africa, Asia & Oceania. 2025
Building and Wood Workers International (BWI)
ILO- International Labour Organization
A framework for quality apprenticeships, 2021
CIOB Special Report on Diversity and Inclusion in Construction 2022 Media reports on the CIOB Diversity and Inclusion Charter
“Amid labor shortages in construction, new reports expose failures in diversity and inclusion” Archnitect News, Dec 10, 2021
“CIOB launches diversity and inclusion charter” Scottish Construction News, 26 Nov 2021
THE PHILIPPINES
Association of Women Workers in the Construction Industry (AWWCI) – power point sharing their approach to empowering women into economic stability and societal equality – AWWCI Mission & Work
Serrano, Melisa R. and Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. (2022). Transformative Strategies Towards Gender Equality in Trade Unions: A Handbook. Kathmandu: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Nepal Office | Gender Justice Hub Asia.
Serrano, Melisa R. and Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. (2024). Let’s make trade unions more gender just. Booklet 1: Gender just trade union policies and structures. Kathmandu: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Nepal Office.
Serrano, Melisa R. and Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. (2024). Let’s make trade unions more gender just. Booklet 2: Spaces and strategies for gender just transformation in core union activities. Kathmandu: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Nepal Office.
ITUC-AP Achieving Gender Equality: A Trade Union Manual (2008).
NEW ZEALAND
Canterbury New Zealand Rebuild
Building back better- Utilising women’s labour in the Canterbury recovery 2013
5 TIPS: New Zealand’s Strategic Lessons
UNITED STATES
Climate Literacy in the Building Trades
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
IWPR: Child Care Supports For The Construction Trades: Building and Sustaining Diversity in Oregon. 2020
IWPR: Women Gain Jobs in Construction Trades but Remain Underrepresented in the Field, 2020
IWPR: Stronger Together: Union Membership Boosts Women’s Earnings and Economic Security
Tradeswomen Building Bridges: the North American Network of Women Working in the Construction Trades 