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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Constructing and Deconstructing Gender -- 3 Women's and Men's Health -- 4 Ideologies of Health, Care and Gender -- 5 Working for Health -- 6 Technology and Health -- 7 Health Promotion -- 8 Caring not Curing -- 9 Intersectionality -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Index.

Although women's experience of working in management has been studied extensively, the particular challenges they face in this role within male-dominated professions merits further attention.This article draws on research into the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway within construction. A feminist theoretical framework has been used to analyse data from 31 in-depth interviews with women working in both the consulting and contracting parts of the industry. The study highlights cultural issues of visibility and the presenteeism ethos of the sector as well as the material constraints of construction sites. Women are taking up senior management posts but only in very few numbers.Their success depends on assuming 'male' norms and in these roles they straddle a marginal territory that is bordered by exclusion and resistance.

This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about the strategies women use to establish their presence in professional roles in the highly gendered construction sector.The article focuses on construction site culture that is hierarchical and 'laddish' with sexual harassment an entrenched feature of life on site.Women find this threatening but are unable to challenge it, because being part of the 'building team' requires their silence. These negative experiences contrast with the pride expressed in their socially useful work bringing both aesthetic and technical satisfaction. Modernization of the industry that one participant framed as 'dragging it out of the dark ages' was seen as a priority.The two most pressing issues are the long-hours culture and the conflict-ridden nature of the sector. A feminist interpretive lens is used to draw out the continuing problems women face in the industry and concludes that the prospects for change to cultural practices remain bleak.