International Women's Rights Day: CAPEB recalls that the building trades are also a women's affair

The feminization of building trades is of paramount importance. With 13% of women among business leaders and employees, the various construction trades are still today largely occupied by men, even though they would have their place there.

The challenges of energy renovation and adaptation of housing accentuate the need for skills within craft building companies. The objectives set, ie 700.000 to one million dwellings to be renovated each year, generate a need to recruit nearly 200 jobs by 000. Why deprive ourselves of women when they are an undeniable asset in meeting this challenge?

And there is no shortage of professional opportunities for women in craft construction companies. They are unfortunately unknown and social and cultural barriers are added to slow down the feminization of our professions.

The weak place of women in small businesses has been one of CAPEB's main concerns for decades. She thus created the National Commission for Women Craftsmen in 1979. Since then, the Confederation has never ceased to mobilize to break down the preconceptions that still prevent women from moving towards these trades. It carries out numerous communication actions, such as the "Conjugate women's building trades" operation, which for 15 years has promoted diversity within the building craft trades and which today finds its extension on social networks.

On March 8, it will encourage its members to speak out on social networks because they are in the best position to testify to the strengths of their profession and inspire others to get started. It is necessary to widely publicize the opportunities available to them and women who are already business leaders or employees are best able to discuss them.

Convinced that the professional orientation phases constitute an essential step in accelerating the feminization of our professions, CAPEB is increasing awareness initiatives in colleges and high schools, in particular by means of its communication media "building craftsmanship, everything a world to explore.

The CAPEB, present in all the departments, is at the side of all the women who choose to exercise their skills within the building trades, to accompany them in their steps and enable them to succeed in their entrepreneurial adventure.

Finally, at a time when parity is needed in most representative bodies, it is urgent to welcome as many women as possible into craft building businesses in order to enable women to represent their peers wherever their interests are at stake.

For Jean-Christophe Repon, president of CAPEB: “Thanks to our efforts, more and more women are joining the ranks of our companies, but there are still not enough of them. Faced with the importance of the challenge and its urgency, CAPEB calls for a collective impetus and ambitious measures to succeed in the challenge of professional diversity in our professions. »