At the end of December 2016, there were around 27m people in work in the UK.Of these, 13.6m were men,and 13.3m were women -close to a 50:50 split. Yet at that same point, there were 2.3m people working in the construction industry, only 296,000 of whom were women -more like an 87:13 split. The data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the proportion of women in construction is barely any higher than prior to the recession, despite the industry's increasingly desperate need to attract new recruits and draw from untapped talent pools.
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