Indigenous Women's Employment in Natural Resource Industries in Canada: Patterns, Barriers and Opportunities
Publisher: Women's Studies International Forum
Author(s): Bipasha Baruah and Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic
Date: 2023
Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources
Countries: Canada
This paper identifies barriers and opportunities that Indigenous women in Canada face in energy, mining, and forest sector employment through a review of scholarly and practitioner literature published between 2000 and 2022, and 10 in-depth interviews conducted between May and August 2021 with Indigenous women working in various capacities within (or knowledgeable about) natural resources industries in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.