Manthe, Maruna (2025) Gender Equity and Circular Construction: Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Women’s Access and Participation. Master thesis, Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE).
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Abstract
This thesis examines gender equity in Friesland’s circular construction (CC) sector, focusing on how the workplace environment influences women’s access, participation, and recognition. Using the Gender at Work Framework (Rao et al., 2015), a model designed to analyze how gender operates within and around organisations, the study analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with women across the sector. Findings show that informal norms, such as masculine culture and the perception of gender irrelevance, shape daily experiences more profoundly than formal policies. Structural support for inclusion is limited, and equity is often treated as achieved through individual effort. This normalisation of symbolic inclusion reflects persistent barriers within workplace culture. The thesis contributes to feminist institutional and circular economy scholarship by revealing how organisational environments sustain or disrupt inequality.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Cardoso Chrispim, M. and Faber, N.R. |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2025 06:11 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2025 06:11 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/705 |
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