BUILDING A DIVERSE PROFESSION AN SCSI SURVEY SHOWS THAT WHILE MANY COMPANIES ARE EMBRACING DIVERSITY, SOME HAVE YET TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY.
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f the past number of years have taught us anything, it is that the environment within
SCSI survey
which you live has a greater impact on you then you might have previously thought.
In late November 2021, the SCSI asked
This leads to the question of who exactly are the people involved in the professions
members to take part in a survey on their
tasked with creating and shaping our built environment, and do they really reflect
gender, sexual identity and background, among
the society we live in?
other topics, to gather base data on the
The property industry has been known to be slow to change. This is evidenced by the pace at
diversity within the organisation. Approximately
which the industry embraced technology. Property is still very much a people-oriented industry,
3.5% of all members took park in the survey.
and companies have started to look at who those people are. Many companies across all
Of the members surveyed, 35% were female,
professions have already adopted, or are in the process of adopting, policies that embrace
63% were male, 1% were non-binary and 1%
diversity and inclusion; the property, land and construction sector could be seen as entering a
were
time of great change for the people working within it and for the clients they serve.
respondents identified as White Irish or Other
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transgender.
A
total
of
96%
of
