3 per cent: The damning number driving construction's gender push

Women at a construction site at Ganjoni in Mombasa in this photo taken in 2020. [File, Standard ]

Women make up less than 3 per cent of Kenya's construction workforce, industry leaders have warned, as they unveiled tools to dismantle barriers shutting out half the population.

The Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN), in partnership with the National Construction Authority (NCA), the State Department of Public Works, Women in Real Estate (WiRE) and the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK), unveiled the Building Fair Futures initiative on Tuesday in Nairobi.