Women, Work and Transport
Women, Work and Transport
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妇女、工作和交通
DOI：
10.1108/s2044-994120220000016005
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2022
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Porter G
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在全球大部分地区，男性身份和机动能力都深深交织在一起，但这种关系在非洲表现得最为明显。在非洲大陆，公路运输工作在本质上一直是男性主义的领域：几乎总是男性驾驶商用车辆，管理卡车和公共汽车停车场的装载活动（现在是摩托车阶段），进行路边维修，硫化轮胎，甚至提供燃料。这并不意味着女性在这个领域完全缺席，但她们的地位通常是边缘化的，至少在一定程度上受到塑造女性自我理解的女性气质霸权规范的限制。她们通常为男性筑路工人提供熟食、酒精和性服务，或者从事最低薪、最辛苦的搬运工工作，沿着道路搬运货物，在帮助男性修路和修路时搬运材料，或者装载车辆。不时地，女性渴望渗透到该行业更有利可图的领域，尤其是通过拥有商用车，但她们与公路业务中油腻的螺母和螺栓的更密切接触仍然很少。
Male identity and motor-mobility are deeply intertwined across much of the globe but nowhere is this relationship more strongly in evidence than in Africa. On the African continent, road transport work has always appeared, in essence, to be a masculinist domain: it is almost always men who are seen driving commercial vehicles, regulating loading activities in the lorry and bus parks (and now the motorcycle stages), undertaking roadside repairs, vulcanising tyres, and even serving fuel. This does not mean that women are entirely absent from the sector, but their place is commonly peripheral–constrained at least in part by hegemonic norms of femininity that shape women’s self-understandings. They typically supply cooked food, alcohol and sex to male road workers, or take on back-breaking work in the lowliest–and lowest paid–of porterage roles, head-loading goods along the road, carrying materials when assisting men making and mending roads, or loading vehicles. From time to time, women have aspired to infiltrate more lucrative areas of the sector, especially through ownership of commercial vehicles, but their closer engagement with the oily nuts and bolts of the road business remains rare.