Women can be plumbers, and women do want to plumb. While the conversation around women plumbing stays at the first hurdle, the real issues of how to attract women into the industry and how to retain them gets ignored.
Why Women Plumbers? Again
‘Why Women Plumbers?’ Hattie Hasan, Stopcocks Women Plumbers’ Founder answers their most frequently asked question. We’re asked ‘Why just women plumbers?’ constantly by the media (and we have our special response to them here) But we also get this same
Join Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders
An outline of some of the reasons women join Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders. We’ve written blogs about training, blogs about mentoring, blogs to bring the website to the top of Google, and lots of blogs about gender diversity in the industry
Scandal
Mica May, Director of Marketing for Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders looks at the scandal of the low numbers of women successfully pursuing careers in construction. Why is it that the of low numbers of women in IT, Architecture,
The Importance of Mentoring
Stopcocks Women Plumbers licencees receive phone and on-site mentoring as part of the service. Mica May; Co-Director explains why this is so important. “It’s very different when you’re in such a tiny minority”. Female plumbers and other women in trades
Just Do It!
Sometimes fear and lack of confidence stop us. But the only way to overcome them is to just do it! Mica May, Director of Stopcocks Women Plumbers talks about confidence and competence. Just do it may feel like a very obvious statement,
Why Use a Woman Plumber?
Mica May from Stopcocks Women Plumbers examines what prompts customers to choose a woman plumber. This seems a strange question to us, after all, when customers call, they’ve already made that decision. Frequently when they call they have a sad
So you want to be a plumber
Mica May of Stopcocks Women Plumbers answers the most frequently asked questions from women who want to be a plumber. Q. I’m confused. Whats the difference between all the courses on the internet? A. This question is complicated to answer
Case Study of a woman plumber: Petra’s Story
Petra removing a basin Petra looks just like an ordinary woman plumber; but here’s the thing, women plumbers are anything but ordinary. Women plumbers represent between 0.4 and 1% of all plumbers in UK. A statistic that hasn’t significantly changed