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Addressing Inuit Women’s Economic Security and Prosperity in the Resource Extraction Industry
Reports results of literature search and qualitative and quantitative survey data from 29 women living in Arviat, Salluit, Inuvik, and Baker Lake. Study's focus was sexual violence and harassment in the workplace, and identifying gaps, opportunities and recommendations to ensure women's safety and economic security.
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Construction Program Grads Hammering Out a Career
Globalization as Racialized, Sexualized Violence: The Case of Indigenous Women
The Intersecting Risks of Violence and HIV for Rural Aboriginal Women in a Neo-Colonial Context
Labour, Modernity and the Canadian State: A History of Aboriginal Women and Work in the Mid-Twentieth Century
'Living the Same as the White People': Mohawk and Anishinabe Women's Labour in Southern Ontario, 1920-1940
Never Until Now: Indigenous & Racialized Women's Experiences Working in Yukon & Northern British Columbia Mine Camps
Research consisted of survey and semi-structured interviews using open-ended questions with 22 respondents. Study found: limited job opportunityand longevity of employment, inadequate pay scale for hours worked, uequal work expectations, limited opportunities for advancement, inadequate harm prevention, gender or race harassement/discrimination with absence of grievance mechanisms, poor environmental practices, and limited economic benefits to Indigenous people.