Out of the frying pan, into the fire? persistent gender barriers in Australian fire-fighting and challenges for HRM
By directly accessing women's accounts of their active and ex-volunteer fire-fighting at the Australian Country Fire Authority (CFA), this paper seeks to understand women's experiences in fire-fighting. The study documents the voices of women in work where they are mostly conspicuous by their absence, thus contributing to the small body of empirical studies of women in fire-fighting. Findings confirm the underrepresentation of women and provide evidence of horizontal and vertical gender segregation. Women fire-fighters are significantly challenged and discriminated against by individual and or ... Show more
Authors: Batty, Alex; Burchielli, Rosaria
Published: Los Angeles, California, Sage Publications, 2011
Resource type: Article
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