The Re-Creation of Gender in a Male Workplace.

This paper draws on participant observation in a male-dominated blue-collar job to understand how the concepts of "masculinity and femininity are re-created through coworker Interactions on the shopfloor and the effect of this on women. Men typecast women in these fobs as either feminine or unfeminine and treated them differently, but in both cases, women's presence was useful for defining--and "m the case of sex- role appropriate women--enforcing masculinity. Such treatment isolated women from the on-going work culture and constrained them to certain behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]