{"id":238755,"date":"2024-03-08T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/?p=238755"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:15:09","slug":"spotlight-on-our-members-for-womens-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/2024\/03\/08\/spotlight-on-our-members-for-womens-rights-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on our Members for Women\u2019s Rights Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, March 8, is International Women\u2019s Rights Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We might be taking the time to highlight women\u2019s issues today, but we are campaigning for them all year long. We want to encourage more women to join\u2014and stay in\u2014the construction industry, to strengthen protections against harassment, to make employers aware of their obligations towards pregnant women, to adapt construction sites to better suit women\u2019s realities, to improve work-life balance measure and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all of CSD Construction\u2019s STRONG women workers, we stand with you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re proud to shine a light on our members Cindy, Brigitte and Joannie, who were featured in Le Soleil Affaires magazine. Click below to read their stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-beige-color has-green-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesoleil.com\/magazines\/le-soleil-affaires\/elles-batissent-le-quebec\/2024\/03\/08\/elles-ont-fait-le-saut-en-construction-TBSLZSV4GVHRDIWQMHEEKIMDKI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Slightly more women in construction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission de la construction du&nbsp;Qu\u00e9bec (CCQ) released the latest data on women in the construction industry. Data shows there is still a lot of work to be done to welcome more women and especially to keep them working in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A total of 7,470 women, or almost 3.8% of the total workforce, worked on construction sites in 2023. This represents an increase of over 250 more women than in 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A record number of 1,500 women, or just over 9.5% of all entrants, chose to start a career on a construction site.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only 4,460 companies hire women (16.2%);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women are most represented in the following trades and occupations: painters (26.3%), carpenters (2.5%) and unskilled occupations (5.2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-beige-color has-green-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccq.org\/fr-CA\/Nouvelles\/2024\/journee-des-femmes#:~:text=Les%20femmes%20plus%20nombreuses%20dans%20l'industrie%20de%20la%20construction&amp;text=En%20cette%20Journ%C3%A9e%20internationale%20des,main%2Dd'%C5%93uvre%20totale.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View more statistics<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 8, is International Women\u2019s Rights Day. We might be taking the time to highlight women\u2019s issues today, but we are campaigning for them all year long. We want to encourage more women to join\u2014and stay in\u2014the construction industry, to strengthen protections against harassment, to make employers aware of their obligations towards pregnant women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9365,"featured_media":186543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239127,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238755\/revisions\/239127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csdconstruction.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}