Next generation of female tradies learn carpentry skills to counter male-dominated industry

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Two Sheds aims to address the entrenched gender gap in the building industry by providing community-based women's and children's woodworking and carpentry skills programs.

Woodwork teachers Jess Martin and Sarah Goddard advocate for female inclusion.abc.net.au/news/two-sheds-workshop-teaches-carpentry-skills-to-women/102839330If set designer Jess Martin could have her time again as a school leaver, she might have chosen to be a carpenter.Two decades later, she's hoping to change that misconception.

"It's important for young people to see women teaching these skills as well. It's not just coming from the blokes," Ms Martin said. "This has opened up a lot of things. If I want to do carpentry, this workshop would make it a lot easier, so it's opened up that as an option," she said.Across the Australian construction industry, women represent just 2 per cent of those employed in physical labour roles, according to advocacy group the National Association Of Women In Construction .For every year worked, women must work an extra 106 days to earn the same wage as their male counterparts.

"When women are on the job site, you're so conspicuous in that … it is the main thing you are, 'a woman on site'.

 

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