Querétaro, qro. The local construction industry has set out to increase the participation of women in design, development and execution of public works, due to the low prevalence of intervention and to the fact that their interference has focused more on administrative activities.
With this objective, the delegation Querétaro from Mexican Chamber of Construction Industry (CMIC), the Queretano Women's Institute (IQM) and the state agencies of the sector are working on the configuration of a work manual with a gender perspective, whose premise is to influence the participation of women in this industry and to promote their integration as part of the workforce of this activity.
The CMIC, the IQM and state agencies are working on the configuration of a work manual with a gender perspective.
The executive vice president of delegational representation and social communication of the CMIC Querétaro, Laura Sepúlveda Antuna, highlighted the need for the participation of women in the design, management and execution of public works, as well as permeate the gender perspective within the productive activity.
"That we are included in the design, planning, management, execution of public works in our state, that can be part of citizen equality and inclusion in the construction industry, women are promoted in the workforce, technique, operator, administrators, designer suppliers, investors, businesswomen, to mention a few items. The manual will have the description of specific and recommended requirements ", pronounced.
Once the manual is made, It will be sought to become a regulated public policy instrument, exposed the director of the IQM, Valeria Guerrero Angeles.
“Beyond incorporating women into an industry, what is a gap, which are spaces where it is difficult for women to have an active participation, they do it in administrative spaces, in design tasks, but they are hardly in the field, harassment situations, among others. More than being a tool for women to join, since construction there is a great opportunity to modify a large part of the roles and stereotypes that we have as a society and that these favor the incorporation of women in different types in vulnerable conditions, declared.
The work of integrating a manual to incorporate the gender perspective in public works began a year ago, when in a town in the mountainous municipality Landa de Matamoros, tendered a work and the total number of workers required was not covered, so a group of 60 women participated in the execution of the work.
In this context and as part of the actions to integrate the manual, of this 8 September to 1 December will be held the Training Diploma to incorporate the gender perspective in design, planning, management and execution of public works in the state, which is taught through the Training Institute of the Construction Industry (ICIC) of the camera.
The diploma has a duration of 120 hours, It is carried out free of charge and is aimed at municipal and state public servants, in addition to citizenship that develops activities related to the industry.
Alone 4.4% they are women
In the first quarter of 2020, the state's construction industry added 81,740 workers in the state: 95.6% men and only 4.4% women, according to the National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE), of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
At the national level, to the March cut, the construction industry employed 4.3 millions of people: 96.2% men and only 3.8% women.