I love March! It’s the time of year when gender equality is on the radar thanks to International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Businesses are keen to promote events and initiatives, individuals get to celebrate achievements and status quos are scrutinised and challenged. It’s a time that fills me with optimism for the future. Which is particularly important to me this year as it’s the first International Women’s Day I get to celebrate with my four-month-old daughter.

Being a safety advisor in the construction industry isn’t hard enough without having to add you’re a female. A young female at that. This was the difficulty I had to address very fast in an industry which could swallow you up as fast as you could say ‘Im a safety advisor, get me outta here’. I faced many a challenge, challenges before I even got to enter a site. Seeing me with my long hair and small frame, people assumed I could easily get lost in the industry. And many a da