How TaskHer Supports Tradeswomen

Welcome to TaskHer. Now you're in, here's the bit that makes us different from every other booking platform you've used.

We only work with tradeswomen. Not as a gimmick, as the entire point.

Only 5% of tradespeople in the UK are women, a gap that's barely moved in years. It's not down to a lack of skill. It's visibility, bias, and a public that's still sceptical: 12% of people say they'd rule out hiring a tradeswoman altogether before she's even walked through the door. Meanwhile the UK has a shortage of 166,000 tradespeople. There's a workforce ready to fill that gap and an industry that's made it hard for them to get in.

TaskHer's co-founder Anna built the platform after a home renovation where every tradesman on site directed every question to her husband, never to her. When she went looking for a female plumber or electrician instead, there was no platform to find one. So she and her husband Paul built one.
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Here are the three things TaskHer actually does about the problem:

1. We Give Tradeswomen a Platform to Find Work

Every tradeswoman on TaskHer is vetted before she ever appears in your search results: proof of ID, original training certificates, professional body membership like Gas Safe or the NICEIC, public liability insurance, and a video or phone interview. You're not gambling on a stranger from a listings site, you're booking someone who's already been thoroughly checked.

It's free for her to join, no sign-up fees, no commission, no paying for leads. She sees the job, the photos, the price, and decides whether to accept it. No cold-calling, no bidding wars, no chasing.

2. We Acknowledge the Issue

Most of the trades industry doesn't talk about the gender gap, it just quietly perpetuates it. Around 80% of people still use "tradesmen" to describe the entire industry, women included, which tells you how deep the default sits. TaskHer exists because representation for tradeswomen is poor and the problem needs fixing.

Every booking you make through us is a small, practical vote that this matters.

3. We Reward Skilled Work

This is where fair pay stops being a value statement and becomes the actual pricing model.

A qualified tradeswoman doesn't turn up with an app and a van. She's paid for years of training, qualifications, insurance, and a set of tools that can run into thousands of pounds before she's earned a penny. TaskHer sets the rate for each trade centrally, so pricing is never left to guesswork, a race to the bottom, or a tradeswoman underselling herself to win the job:

• Electrician: £95+VAT per hour
• Plumber: £95+VAT per hour
• Heating & Gas Engineer: £100+VAT per hour
• Painting & Decorating: £250+VAT per day

Your quote is built from the trade rate and the average time a job like yours takes, based on thousands of completed TaskHer bookings, so you get a fair estimate and she gets a fair wage for the graft and money that went into getting qualified. No undercutting, no negotiating her down because she's new or because a customer thinks they can.

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Your Time Is Worth Something Too

You didn't sign up to spend an afternoon ringing round for quotes that never materialise. TaskHer gives you an instant quote and lets you book in around three minutes, no waiting on a callback that doesn't come. You only pay once the job's done and you're happy with it.

That same respect for time runs both ways. Every tradeswoman on TaskHer gets a confirmed booking she can accept or pass on, a clear price, and no chasing you for payment afterwards, we take your card details upfront so she never has to ask. No one's afternoon gets wasted, yours or hers.

What This Means for You

Every time you book a tradeswoman through TaskHer, you're doing three things at once:

• Getting a fast, fairly priced, thoroughly vetted professional for the job in hand
• Backing a platform that pays women properly for skilled work, with zero cost to her for being on it
• Helping close a gap in an industry that's short 250,000 workers it badly needs

That's not a marketing line. It's the actual mechanics of how the platform works, and now you're part of it.

Ready to book? Head to your dashboard and get an instant quote from a vetted tradeswoman near you. And if you know someone else who'd want in, our Fix Up a Friend programme gets you both £15 off when they book their first job.

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