Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry

[EN] The construction industry frequently offers an unwelcoming environment for women, and those who do manage to enter have high rates of turnover and abandonment. Within this scenario, this research aims to identify the barriers faced by qualified women, to analyze the different views that qualifi...

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Autores: Barreto, Urpi, Carrión, Andrés, Torres-Machí, Cristina, Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Women
Barriers
Construction Industry
Qualified Professionals
Peru
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
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spelling Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction IndustryBarreto, UrpiCarrión, AndrésTorres-Machí, CristinaPellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644WomenBarriersConstruction IndustryQualified ProfessionalsPeruESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVAPROYECTOS DE INGENIERIAINGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION[EN] The construction industry frequently offers an unwelcoming environment for women, and those who do manage to enter have high rates of turnover and abandonment. Within this scenario, this research aims to identify the barriers faced by qualified women, to analyze the different views that qualified men and women have regarding these barriers, and to find the underlying factors that group these barriers and their degrees of importance. In the context of this research, qualified men and women are those who hold a university degree (in construction-related areas). Initially, 20 barriers were identified analyzing previous contributions. These barriers composed the statements of the questionnaire survey; data were obtained from 429 professionals in the Peruvian construction industry. It was found that women face invisible barriers throughout their careers and have fewer professional opportunities than men. The main perceptual dissimilarities between men and women indicate that men interpret womanhood as a form of positive discrimination, which, far from being a professional barrier, is considered an advantage by them. Likewise, women agree that if they take maternity leave, they will suffer a loss in the hierarchical order; furthermore, the industry does not have flexible work schedules, childcare programs, or provisions for career breaks. Five underlying factors were extracted from the analysis: male oriented labor market, detrimental issues for being a woman, harsh working conditions in the construction industry, unfavorable perception of the construction industry, and high competitiveness of the construction industry.American Society of Civil EngineersDepartamento de Ingeniería de la Construcción y de Proyectos de Ingeniería CivilEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y PuertosGrupo de Gestión del Proceso Proyecto-ConstrucciónRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20172017-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/107373reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1073732026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
title Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
spellingShingle Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
Barreto, Urpi
Women
Barriers
Construction Industry
Qualified Professionals
Peru
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
title_short Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
title_full Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
title_fullStr Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
title_full_unstemmed Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
title_sort Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Barreto, Urpi
Carrión, Andrés
Torres-Machí, Cristina
Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
author Barreto, Urpi
author_facet Barreto, Urpi
Carrión, Andrés
Torres-Machí, Cristina
Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
author_role author
author2 Carrión, Andrés
Torres-Machí, Cristina
Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Ingeniería de la Construcción y de Proyectos de Ingeniería Civil
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
Grupo de Gestión del Proceso Proyecto-Construcción
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Women
Barriers
Construction Industry
Qualified Professionals
Peru
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
topic Women
Barriers
Construction Industry
Qualified Professionals
Peru
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
description [EN] The construction industry frequently offers an unwelcoming environment for women, and those who do manage to enter have high rates of turnover and abandonment. Within this scenario, this research aims to identify the barriers faced by qualified women, to analyze the different views that qualified men and women have regarding these barriers, and to find the underlying factors that group these barriers and their degrees of importance. In the context of this research, qualified men and women are those who hold a university degree (in construction-related areas). Initially, 20 barriers were identified analyzing previous contributions. These barriers composed the statements of the questionnaire survey; data were obtained from 429 professionals in the Peruvian construction industry. It was found that women face invisible barriers throughout their careers and have fewer professional opportunities than men. The main perceptual dissimilarities between men and women indicate that men interpret womanhood as a form of positive discrimination, which, far from being a professional barrier, is considered an advantage by them. Likewise, women agree that if they take maternity leave, they will suffer a loss in the hierarchical order; furthermore, the industry does not have flexible work schedules, childcare programs, or provisions for career breaks. Five underlying factors were extracted from the analysis: male oriented labor market, detrimental issues for being a woman, harsh working conditions in the construction industry, unfavorable perception of the construction industry, and high competitiveness of the construction industry.
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