Non-Traditional Work

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This subsection contains material on women working or seeking employment in traditionally male-dominated occupations such as trades, policing, firefighting, factory work, mines, steelworks, or forestry. Key themes include societal attitudes and stereotypes around gendered occupations, sexual and workplace harassment, and discriminatory hiring practices.

Archival Materials

Buttons
The best man for a job may be a woman

  • Year created:

    --

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Report from Women of Steel District 3 Summer School -July 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
The Steelworkers Peel/Halton Women’s Committee News – October 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
United Steelworkers Peel-Halton Area Council Women’s Committee: Letter to Leo Gerard

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Josephine Urh

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Working Together District 3 Conference Reports: Women of Steel – How a Training Course Became a Movement

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Author(s):

    Carol Landry

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "5'2'80 000 LBS" featuring a woman walking behind two trucks on a dirt road lined with trees.
5’2’80 000 LBS

  • Year created:

    1999

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Nathalie Trépanier

  • Language:

    French

  • Region:

    Quebec
Film still from 'I want to be an Engineer' of a woman wearing a white hard hat.
I Want to Be an Engineer

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Beverly Shaffer

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "Laila" featuring Laila, a white woman with curly hair wearing sunglasses, in a red car with a sign that says "Laila Paattinen Drywall Taping" on the side of the car.
Laila

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Diane Beaudry

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia
Still from the film "Moving Mountains" featuring two female miners holding shovels and walking in the snow.
Moving Mountains

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Laura Sky

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    British Columbia

Photos