Construction accidents and women's role in the industry

Despite perceptions to the contrary, women can play just as vital a role within the construction industry as men, which, when you consider that they have been working within construction since the middle ages, should come as no surprise.

In fact, there are around 200,000 women working in construction in the UK today, accounting for around 10% of the overall workforce. Once again, contrary to gender stereotypes, the jobs women perform are just as important, and sometimes just as labour intensive, as those performed by men, making them just as prone as their male counterparts to suffering injury in a construction accident.

The personal injury solicitors on YouClaim's panel firms approach the construction accident claims they receive from women no differently to those they receive from men. Their commitment to listening, liaising and investigating the facts in the aid of strong and frank representation remains just the same. Why should be it be any different?

One organisation that seeks to represent the interests and raise the profile of women working in this sector is the National Association of Women in Construction. Although they are eager to remind the wider public that women do participate in the construction industry, they do point out that in the UK women have less representation in this sector than any other.

Some commentators worry that this under representation can lead to the interests of women being marginalised by male-centric working practices. Although this is not necessarily the case, if a woman believes she has suffered her construction injury as a result of the kind of institutional prejudice that might constitute employer negligence, YouClaim will do their utmost to secure her the compensation she deserves for her injuries.

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If you believe that the injuries you have sustained in the workplace are, at least, in part the fault of the actions or failures of your employer, you may be entitled to claim compensation.

The no win, no fee solicitors on our panel firms have, between them, many decades of experience in representing the interests of both male and female clients.

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