CHALLENGES OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE F.C.T BUILDING INDUSTRY, NIGERIA.

Abstract

The study was designed to assess the challenges facing women career advancement in building construction industries in federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The target population for the study consists of 65 respondents which includes 50 site engineers and 15 managers in F.C.T. A structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection which was face validated for construct and content by three experts in the Department of Industrial and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna. A 45 item questionnaire was used to collect data. Mean and standard deviation were the statistical tools used to answer the three research questions that guided the study while t-test was employed to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study shows that the result from the response of the respondents revealed that all the item which deals with the building constructional skills performed by women in the construction industries in F.C.T, the challenges faced by women in carrying out the building constructional skills in the industries in F.C.T, and also all the items in strategies for overcoming the challenges faced by women in career advancement in building construction industries. The findings revealed that women in construction industries face a lot of challenges working in the construction industries.