Inspiring 5050 News & Thought Agenda.

When it comes to the economics of flexible working, there is currently a supply and demand issue with demand far outweighing supply. According to research undertaken by the recruitment company Capability Jane, only 10% of UK advertised jobs offer flexible working. In...

Key to driving forward the Inspiring 5050 agenda is understanding the wider issues affecting the housebuilding industry and how these will shape the future of the sector as it evolves. Inspiring 5050 spoke with James Stanbridge of Robinson Manufacturing to discuss...

The Fawcett Society’s recently published report: A House for Everyone, investigating the experiences of women MP’s in Parliament highlighted the slow progress to achieving gender equality as well as identifying the potential cultural issues of working in a male...

The 2016 report Empowering Productivity: Harnessing the Talents of Women in Financial Services (2016) identified that within the financial services sector, a largely pyramid model existed in relation to women working in the industry. Whilst the number of women...

The ONS Labour Market Overview for November showed that the number of job vacancies within the UK remain at historically high levels. Employers, faced with filling vacancies during a job hunters’ market, will find themselves in greater competition for candidates. This...

Apprenticeship data from the CITB shows the number of female apprentices joining the industry has increased year on year since 2016. This is supported by Housebuilder Redrow’s annual apprentice report which identified 1 in 4 young women seeing construction as a...

Can any of us still remember our career aspirations from when we were young? How closely did we meet these aspirations and what impacted any change? An awareness of the extent to which young people’s career aspirations can be shaped, changed and even re-directed by...

According to figures by the CPA, in 2021 less than 15% of the construction workforce was female. Of that 15%, less than 1% were site-based roles. This equates to fewer than 8000 females employed in site-based and manual roles across the UK.There are numerous potential...