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Hattie HasanMBE
OccupationPlumber
Known forEstablished the organisation Stopcocks, dedicated to supporting women plumbers

Hatice Hasan MBE, known as Hattie Hasan, is a British plumber and CEO of the Stopcocks Women Plumbers franchise for women in the plumbing trade.

Career

Hasan trained as a plumber after working as a teacher in inner-city schools for eight years. She enrolled in a plumbing course as a self employed apprentice. After practising as a plumber for 15 years she founded Stopcocks as a means of promoting and enabling female plumbers, who make up around 3% of the construction workforce and less than 1% of plumbers. The Stopcocks network was established to provide support to self employed women and training for those getting established in the trade.

Hasan authored The Joy of Plumbing: A Guide to Living the Life You Really, Really Want published in 2011. She was named in the 2020 New Year Honours list as an MBE for supporting and promoting women in the plumbing and heating industries.

Published works

  • Hasan, Hattie (2011). The Joy of Plumbing: A Guide to Living the Life You Really, Really Want. Ecademy Press. ISBN 978-1-907722-09-7.

Personal life

Hasan is of Turkish Cypriot origin.

References

  1. ^ "Women plumbers' founder 'chuffed' over MBE". BBC News. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. "New Year Honours List – United Kingdom". The Gazette: London Gazette. 62866: N18. 28 December 2019.
  3. "Home - Stopcocks - Woman Plumbers, Female Plumbers". Stopcocks. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. ^ Hasan, Hattie (2011). The Joy of Plumbing: A Guide to Living the Life You Really, Really Want. Ecademy Press. ISBN 978-1-907722-09-7. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. Davis, Hazel (8 April 2010). "Taking the plunge in male world: A radical firm of female plumbers". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. "UK self-employed by gender in detailed occupations from 2013 to 2018". Office for National Statistics (UK).
  7. "The Conversation: Female Plumbers". BBC News. 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2021. Hattie Hasan is a second-generation Turkish Cypriot who grew up in London.

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