An all-woman building team? Does this mean handbags at dawn or lots of group hugs?

Neither, according to Anna Cocks of consultancy Calfordseaden, who is project manager on this Bluestone affordable housing scheme in Reading. She says women aren鈥檛 such a novelty in construction any more.

鈥淚鈥檓 working on another site where the rest of the team is men, and there鈥檚 no difference in the working relationships at all,鈥 she says. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 get any reaction [from the men].鈥 However, she has not come across a female site manager before.