Women into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labor

Abstract

In 1974 Sue Benoit was a single mother with a five-year-old daughter living in Levack, a small mining community outside Sudbury, Ontario. After leaving an abusive marriage she was living with her parents and working as a cashier at the local grocery store. She worked long hours for low pay: “That was rough because the total pay to take home was seventy dollars a week and I had to pay $25 for the babysitter and $25 for rent. You’d have to be there at eight and the store didn’t close until six and then you’d usually have to balance the tills … by the time you got home it was seven o’clock. It was hard, really hard with a baby.” When she heard that Inco was hiring women for the blue-collar jobs at the Levack mill for the first time since World War II, “it was just like heaven.” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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