{"id":306,"date":"2026-05-09T19:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/2026\/05\/09\/reading-group-opens-gender-on-the-building-site\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:30:17","slug":"reading-group-opens-gender-on-the-building-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/2026\/05\/09\/reading-group-opens-gender-on-the-building-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading group opens: gender on the building site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The Her Know How reading group opened earlier this month with a session on the recent ethnographic literature on gender and construction. Twenty-three participants joined online from eight countries; about half were academics and half were active practitioners \u2014 site managers, trade unionists, designers, and one occupational health researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversation circled a familiar finding: the published literature is rich on the experience of women on site as <em>workers<\/em>, and thinner on the architectural-professional layer above the trades. Meanwhile, in the trades themselves, the literature concentrates heavily on Northern European and North American sites; field studies from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America circulate in different journals and rarely cross over.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the group will do<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next six months the group will run monthly sessions, each anchored by one paper and one practitioner respondent. The reading list is on the subgroup page; the next session is on training pathways and apprenticeship in two contrasting national systems. Members are welcome to <a href=\"\/staging\/contact\/\">propose papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short report from the opening session of the Her Know How reading group: what the literature on gender and construction looks like in 2026, and what the gaps are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"subgroup":[7],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","subgroup-her-know-how"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"subgroup","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subgroup?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}