What brings the gender perspective to sustainable interventions in buildings?

• Main Authors: Silvia Spairani Berrio, Nuria Rosa Roca, Eloisa González Ponce
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2018-12-01
• Series: Feminismo/s
• Subjects: rol de género; inserción laboral; desarrollo de carrera; liderazgo transformacional
• Online Access: https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2018-n32-que-aporta-la-perspectiva-de-genero-a-las-intervenciones-sostenibles-en-las-edificaciones
• ISSN: 1696-8166; 1989-9998

What do we mean by sustainable intervention in the building sector from a gender perspective? How to deal with rehabilitations and restorations of buildings taking the gender perspective into account? The aim of the paper is to discuss sustainable interventions in buildings, considering the complex relationships between college education, employment and social welfare, to prevent that the goal of the gender ideology is postponed once again to the architects of cohesion and social harmony. All of this, in the firm conviction of the relevant role-played by women the field of construction, despite it does not have visibility, due to the difficulty of the labor market insertion of women in rehabilitation and restoration fields. The study was based on an anonymous survey given to a sample of 37 students of the Master of Pathology and Intervention in the Building of the Catholic University of Murcia to know their opinion about if this postgraduate degree has encouraged their inclusion into employment from a gender equality perspective. According to the data obtained, there are differences between women and men during the early years of insertion into labor market around sustainable intervention. Moreover, motivations and expectations that can influence the development of differentiated by gender, from the point of view of the transformation of reality that have design and sustainable architecture are different.