Challenges and Opportunities for Egyptian Women in Design and

Construction Field

Marwa AbdEl-Zaher, PMP®, RMP®Design Project Manager at LIVING IN interiors Company

Presentation Contents

• Introduction • Well Known Names In Construction And Design Field• Egyptian Women Management Skills • Salary Scale Diversity Between Males And Females In Construction Field• Open Fields Within Construction Industry • Miss-absence Of Women Labour In Egypt • Challenges And Opportunities For Women In Construction Field • Key Points to improve women productivity in Construction field

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Introduction

Key points of success:1- Strive to achieve the goal in a

certain time

2- Formulate your plans

3- Don’t curse failure

4- Grab the opportunities

5- Learn new things

6- Respect criticism

Goal7- Develop a positive outlook

8- Forget the past and live in present

9- Be ambitious to attain success

10- There is no shortcut to success

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Well Known Names In Construction And Design Field

Alia El TaniniHead Designer And Co-founderOf LIVING IN INTERIORS Design

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Well Known Names In Construction And Design Field

Mona HussienIs head designer and co-founderof Mona Hussein Design House MHDH& Mahally with Mona Hussein

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Well Known Names In Construction And Design Field

Shewekar ElgharablyHead designer at Shewekar ElgharablyDesign Studio and co-founder of Zimmer showroom.

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Well known names in construction and design field

Strategic objectives Sub program

Program Benefits

Construction program

MissionVision2

Egyptian Women Personal Management Skills

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Salary Scale Diversity Between Men And Women In Construction Field

- There are no solid statistics in Egypt for the earning ratios

between male and female, but all the surveys indicate that

females salaries are lower versus males salaries by (20% to

35%) .

- The construction field is one of the few fields that the

diversity of the salary was the lowest.

- Statistics in USA for Women's-to-men's earnings ratios were

higher among women employed in construction (92%)

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Salary Scale Diversity Between Men And Women In Construction Field

Some Of The Reasons Of Salary Scale Diversity:- Qualifications and Job position

- Full time and part time jobs

- Over time availability

- Type and scale of Organization

- Changing location availability

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Working Fields Under Construction Industry

- Sales & office

- Business development

- Design (Architecture & interior)

- Modelling (BIM)

- Technical office

- Professional & Management

- Natural resources , construction & maintenance

- Service Occupations

- Production , Transportation & material moving USA example

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Miss-absence of women labour in Egypt

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Challenges and opportunities for women in construction field

Challenges

- Communication Blockers

- Transportation Requirements

- Logistics Issue

- Aggressive Environment

- Appearance And Safety

- Companies Perception

Opportunities

- Different Fields Of Work

- Low Number Of Women Employment

- Extensive Opportunities

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Key Points to improve women Productivity in Construction field

- Organizations support for kids day care for married women

- Organizations Motivations methods for continue learning

- Organizations Transportations support

- Flexibility for working Hours ( if possible )

- Safety

- Career Path clearness and Fair salary scale

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THANK YOU!Marwa AbdEl-Zaher, PMP®, RMP®Mob: 01006399393Email: marwa_zaher@yahoo.com