“…Work on women in construction (for example Dainty et al ., 2000, 2004; De Graft‐Johnson et al ., 2005; Fielden et al ., 2000; Gale and Davidson, 2006; Greed, 2000) has often focused on women in construction management or in professions such as architecture and engineering, rather than in manual work such as bricklaying, which makes up around 80 per cent 1 of construction employment (Clarke et al ., 2004, is a notable exception, which deals with women in the construction trades.) Also, much of this work has tended to focus either on women's experiences of working in construction or on laying out the reasons why (and the ways in which) women should be encouraged to work in the industry.…”