Gendered Dimensions of Resource Extraction: The Place of Women

Robyn Mayes ()
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Robyn Mayes: Curtin University

Chapter Chapter 8 in Resource Curse or Cure ?, 2014, pp 121-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines two core dimensions of women’s gendered experiences of mining in Australia and more specifically in Western Australia (WA). First, the chapter explores what has been and continues to be women’s principal relationship to mining encapsulated in the social and cultural identity of the ‘mining wife’ and, more recently, ‘fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) wife’. Second, the chapter addresses the fraught emergence of women as mineworkers. As the research presented in this chapter makes clear, the human cost of developmentalism was and continues to be deeply gendered.

Keywords: Mining Industry; Western Australia; Domestic Labour; Labour Shortage; Mining Town (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_8

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