Jane says there are many reasons why the sector needs women – not just to tick the equality box.
“For changing rooms or toilets, when we do a lot of gym work, we’ll have a female and a male painter decorator down there so you can go into the right areas.
“It’s beneficial because we don’t have to shut the toilets or that part of the gym off.
“We’ll also put a female team together to go into a nursing home and places like that because there’s a perceived idea that you can talk to people more.”
Women also have finer painting skills, she says.
“Women probably have a better eye for detail and I know when we’ve employed females, and we’ve employed both females and males, it seems to be that the females seem to strive in the painting side of things,” she says.
In fact, that kind of work is better paid and more interesting, agree Faith and Antonia.
“If you’re going to a town hall or a civic hall and you’ve got columns that look like marble, that’s what we’ve painted. Or the detail and cherubs that’s on the ceiling, we can do stuff like that,” says Jane.
“There were some tiles down at Leeds Town Hall that’s been there since year dot, and they couldn’t find any more. I think they’re 200 years old, something like that, and we’ve painted them all in.”
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