TEAM PLAYERS?
In: Working USA: the journal of labor & society, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 561-568
ISSN: 1743-4580
Based upon my experience as the only female working for a construction company, this essay examines the impact of gender roles upon professional and personal relationships. It opens with a narrative of my first‐ever attempt at playing paintball with my co‐workers; incorporates my reflections about the increasingly war‐like and misogynistic nature of the games as the day wore on; and concludes with an analysis of how gender determined how we played games—both on the field that day and in subsequent interactions when we returned to work.