SEMINAR: The Business of Becoming a Female Maintainer
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Women comprise only 3% of mechanical and electrical trades in the Australian workforce. In recent years, state and national governments have provided incentives for more women to partake in trades. Additionally, following studies that show the positive correlation between gender diversity in the workplace and company profitability, growth and long-term value-creation, corporations are racing to increase diversity also. Never before has there existed such a strong structural and organizational shift co-aligning with women’s equality and opportunity in the workforce. A new landscape has formed. This session will report on 9 months of extensive fieldwork in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. This qualitative research lead to the discovery of rich life-histories of women who have pursued maintenance trades as an occupation as well as those who have recently entered the field. They demonstrate that women are just as capable as men to fulfil all work requirements. But, why then are not more women participating in this employment space? The research uncovers powerful spheres of influence that should be developing and expanding career opportunities and aspirations for women, such as the academe and the family, but in fact, contribute to confining them. Analysis of women’s experiences reveal a society that from the outset appears contemporary and progressive, but for the individual, notions of belonging and the process of becoming are still very much contoured by entrenched and conventional thought.
Bonita Carroll is a Phd student in Anthropology and Sociology.
Speaker(s) |
Bonita Carroll
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Location |
Social Sciences Building Room 2203
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Contact |
Farida Fozdar
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:30
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End |
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:30
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Submitted by |
Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:13
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