Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades

Hunte, Roberta

doi:10.1080/10402659.2016.1237087

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“…Another aspect that this analysis includes is that for men, having "social contacts" is the most important aspect for practice in the profession. Again, this result is linked to the reviewed scientific literature, since it indicates how contact networks become an essential asset in the hiring and promotion of people and projects in the construction sector, and that the main beneficiaries of these networks are those who possess them: men [4,6,10,13,22,23,[30][31][32][33].…”

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“…This same situation also occurs with women, as those who do not have children get higher scores in factor 2. Once more, these means show the relation between social capital and opportunities not only to enter the profession but also to stay and be promoted or to improve the professional path [4,6,10,13,22,23,[30][31][32][33]. Finally, concerning the detailed characterization of factor 3 (physical appearance and being a man, Table 9), the first remark is that any of the comparison within sex groups, with the exception of age differences in men, are statistically significant.…”

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“…On the other hand, on many occasions, the recruitment or promotion procedures in the construction sector occur informally, in social networking [13], where contacts are more relevant than achievements. Hence, access to work is gained through references from relatives or friends [10,[30][31][32][33]. Research suggests that these networks operate as "closeknit gangs", wary of the arrival of new members [4].…”

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Inequalities in the Exercise and Continuity in Building Engineering in Spain. Factor Analysis Including Gender Perspective

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The building sector is one of the most relevant at world level in view of the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) concerned, as well as the number of new jobs created. Nevertheless, it is a completely male-dominated industry. Different institutions and organisms, such as the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, struggle to reduce gender inequality in different environments, including the working one. Aligned with these goals, this study provides the data exploited from the first survey regarding gender inequality within the professionals of the building engineering field in the Spanish population as a whole. This survey was developed in 2018 by the Spanish General Council of Technical Architecture and it was sent to its members. The sample involved 1353 cases. For this data mining, bivariate analyses were conducted in order to subsequently carry out a factor analysis and the socio–demographic composition of the dimensions found. Results exposed statistically meaningful differences in the eyes of women and men about those factors which facilitate practice and continuity in the profession. The most relevant conclusions drawn from the factor analysis reflect the existence of three factors: (1) work competences, (2) social capital and (3) physical appearance and being a man, dimensions in which women and men’s opinion was unevenly distributed.

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“…Within political parties who demand small government, we notice a decrease of women and people of color enrolled in trade programs. Whereas political parties who believe that government can create an even playing field, we have an increase of women and people of color enrolled (Hunte, 2016). Thus, white privilege is governmentally regulated in predictable ways or as Merton would suggest, it is a latent social function.…”

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Individualistic and disembodied trauma narratives that emerge effortlessly from dominant discourses like biochemistry and diagnostic nomenclature fail to address the effects of trauma in people's lives. Trauma could also be understood as a challenge to personal narratives of living in the face of exceptional experiences that stand far outside what is known and familiar. This invites personal accounts of values, purposes, skills, and acts of resistance which offer more possibilities for addressing the negative effects of trauma than descriptions from the cultural canon.

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“…Inequality in organisations is fundamentally intersectional. Previous research has highlighted that race (Hunte, 2016), class and sexual orientation (Denissen and Saguay, 2014; Wright, 2016) and gender identity (Chan, 2013) contribute to the shape and structure of inequality regimes in the male-dominated trades. This article focuses primarily on women’s experiences of organisational and industry-wide inequality regimes.…”

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Inequality regimes in male-dominated trades: What role do apprenticeship intermediaries (GTOs) play?

Bamberry

Bridges

Wulff

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In Australia and internationally, women continue to be underrepresented in male-dominated trade occupations. A notable barrier is the apprenticeship system, which requires women to overcome obstacles in employment and training. Government and industry stakeholders have encouraged women’s apprenticeships in male-dominated trades through the development of Group Training Organisations’ (GTOs) that operate as intermediaries between apprentices and employers. Extending Acker’s model of workplace inequality regimes, we argue that inequality regimes operate between organisations at an industry-wide level. We ask ‘ Do GTOs operate to produce and reproduce workplace and industry-wide inequality regimes? Or can they facilitate improved gender diversity in male-dominated trades?’ Drawing on a recent study of regional tradeswomen’s employment, we find that although GTOs have an important role in facilitating gender diversity, they have inconsistent results in challenging existing inequality regimes. There is a risk that they may become a vector of transmission for workplace inequality regimes to the broader industry. JEL Codes: R23, J71, I24

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Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades

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