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| Author: | Miller, G. E. |
| Title: | Frontier masculinity in the oil industry: the experience of women engineers |
| Journal: | Gender, Work and Organization
2004 : JAN, VOL. 11:1, p. 47-73 |
| Index terms: | Engineers Gender Oil industry Petroleum industry Women Canada |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper contributes to the empirical evidence in the area of gendered organizations (Martin and Collinson, 2002) and their effects on the women who work in them through interpretative, ethnographic analysis of the oil industry in Alberta, Canada. Data from interviews with women professionals who have extensive employment experience in the industry, a historical analysis of the industry's development in the area and the personal contextual experience of the author are combined in the study. It is suggested that there are three primary processes which structure the masculinity of the industry: everyday interactions which exclude women; values and beliefs specific to the dominant occupation of engineering which reinforce gender divisions; and a consciousness derived from the powerful symbols of the frontier myth and romanticized cowboy hero. |
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