by Hattie Hasan | Jan 28, 2020 | Business, Hattie, Industry diversity, Trip to Kenya
Women plumbers are just 1 in every 100 plumbers in UK, just one of them has been awarded an MBE. That woman plumber, who proudly identifies as Turkish Cypriot, seems to have found a way to get more than the usual seven days out of every week because as well as...
by Hattie Hasan | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
The first MBE for a woman plumber goes to Hattie Hasan, founder of Stopcocks Women Plumbers for her work to increase the numbers of women in the heating and plumbing industry. Recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for her services to women in the heating and...
by Hattie Hasan | Sep 29, 2019 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
Stopcocks are contacted almost every week by women who want to be a plumber but are baffled by the conflicting information available. Finding a route into plumbing that works is a common dilemma that we’ve written about a great deal and provide services and strategies...
by Hattie Hasan | May 16, 2019 | Business, Franchise, Hattie, Join us, WIT Conference
Women ARE Plumbers, and women CAN plumb! Let’s move on Please! While the conversation around women plumbing is stuck at the first hurdle (the too often asked ‘can women be plumbers?’ or ‘do women want to be plumbers?’) the real issues of...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 30, 2018 | Business, For Customers, Industry diversity
This article from Boiler Guide about the low numbers of female heating engineers is so interesting and well researched we’re happy to point directly to it. Here are a few excerpts: 2 key accreditation bodies for the industry have estimated that: Of...