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    An investigation into the underrepresentation of women in the Pilbara mining region of Western Australia

    240765_Kljajevic 2016.pdf (1.727Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Kljajevic, Bobana
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Dr Scott Fitzgerald
    Assoc. Prof. Bobbie Oliver
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    MPhil
    
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    School
    Department of Social Sciences and International Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/862
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This study found that while women are not deterred from working in non-traditional roles, mining companies have not succeeded in disrupting a patriarchal organisational culture that continues to permit discriminatory attitudes. This has resulted in middle management privileging a certain type of worker (male), with women having difficulty attaining promotional opportunities and working within more senior roles. It is argued that such attitudes are the product of the wider gender order operating within gendered institutions.

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