Business, Innovation and Skills CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by Mary-Ann Paddison

I am a “retired” 55 year old female Chartered Surveyor and member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). When I started training for my profession in c.1983 I recall that around 7% of Chartered Surveyors were women. Today I understand that approximately 15–17% of Chartered Surveyors are women.

The article “Women in Construction” in Construction Student which is available on the web site www.construction-student.co.uk/careers/women gives a summary of where women in the industry are today, and refers to various studies of the number of women in surveying and the construction industry that may be of interest to the Parliamentary Committee.

I look forward with interest to reading the report from the Committee.

29 December 2012