A survey to capture the voice of women working in UK property has been launched with women from across the residential property sectors encouraged to contribute.
Survey author Susan Gregory, Founder of agency Turners Oak, describes the ambition of the survey to capture the voice and experience of women working across the property sector as one of, if not the, largest survey undertaken.
Gregory, herself an experienced estate agent and consultant, says that she is using the extensive platform provided through networking and collaboration group Women in Residential Property, alongside industry publications like Today’s Conveyancer and Property Soup, to encourage women to complete the anonymous survey.
The findings of the survey will be brought together in a report that will then be used to shape future conversations, educate and influence decision makers within the sector, and form the foundations of a planned Women In Residential Property event to be held in 2025.
AMPLIFY VOICES
She says: “The survey has been something I have been keen to produce for many years and I am delighted to have finally been able to bring it to life.
“Whilst there have been efforts over recent years to amplify women’s voices and acknowledge that women working in the sector may have different experiences from men, there is very little, if any, research (and therefore data) that actually collates the experiences of women.
“There is also anecdotal evidence of women’s voices being suppressed, including the use of NDAs, to silence them.”
And she adds: “The lack of data is problematic as, all too often, those of us attempting to bring women’s experiences into the conversations that shape our industry (with the intention of building a better industry for us all), have the lack of data cited as validation that there is ‘nothing to see here’.”
FILLING THE VOID
Gregory says that this anonymous survey will fill at least some of that data void.
She adds: “By collating and analysing both quantitative and qualitative data we will be able to share, for the first time, the experiences of women at both the collective level and the individual level.
“I have no idea what the results of the survey will tell us. What I do know is that, as an industry, we will no longer be able to say that there was nothing to be told.”
A link to the survey can be found on the Women in Residential Property website HERE.
