Hasan, Hattie

Hattie Hasan was born in North East London to first generation Turkish Cypriot parents. Rather than enter an arranged marriage, she studied Psychology at London University and went on to attain a post graduate degree at Reading University. She taught in several inner London schools until 1990 when she retrained as a plumber and started one of the first companies of women plumbers in the UK. Stopcocks Women Plumbers now encompasses self employed female plumbers throughout that country. Hattie travels speaking to schools, colleges and industry about the importance of women plumbers and supports