Breaking Down Tradition: Women in male-dominated work, 1840-2000

这个项目利用历史分析，旨在阐明性别隔离工作在150多年中的耐力。它计划将重点放在英国和澳大利亚的特定职业上，以确定变革的过程和推动力，并记录女性的经历。该项目旨在追溯将女性拒之门外的工作场所文化的起源，以及后来被指定为女性的“非传统”职业的思想传播。预期结果是对女性工作经历的历史以及塑造当代薪酬不平等的因素的新洞察，这些因素可能会重塑目前对工作场所性别的理解。

Using historical analysis, this project aims to illuminate the endurance of sex-segregated work over more than 150 years. It plans to focus on particular occupations in Britain and Australia to identify the processes and agents of change and document the experiences of women. The project aims to trace the origins of workplace cultures which excluded women, and the circulation of ideas about occupations subsequently designated as ‘non-traditional’ for them. Expected outcomes are new insights into the history of women's experience of work and the factors that shape contemporary pay inequities, which may recast current understandings of gender in the workplace.