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Chapter 6
SDG 5 Gender Equality
Not Just a Women’s Issue: Sustainable
Leadership in Male Dominated
Industries – The Case of the Extractive Industry
Isabel B. Franco, Paulina Salinas Meruane, and Ellen Derbyshire
Abstract Male-dominated and gender-segregated fields, such as the extractive
industry, present key limitations for sustainable leadership opportunities and career
growth for women. By identifying these existing barriers and addressing necessary
actions to be taken, research findings show that success in this area largely depends
on the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, that is, governments, corporations,
higher education institutions and civil society organizations. This study will provide
a qualitative assessment of current leadership and organizational discourse in order
to build knowledge and understanding of the limiting factors and barriers that prevent women from embarking on a sustainable leadership pathway in the early stages
of their career. These limiting factors are grouped into three categories, namely,
sociocultural, corporate and governance factors. Some specific challenges identified
by participants include maternal, family, cultural conceptions of gender roles and
norms as well as workplace diversity. These variables all contribute to a gender and
culturally normative ecosystem that present competitive barriers for career development for women.
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
P. S. Meruane
School of Journalism, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
e-mail: psalinas@ucn.cl
E. Derbyshire
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Business School, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
e-mail: ellen.derbyshire@uq.net.au
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
I. B. Franco et al. (eds.), Actioning the Global Goals for Local Impact, Science
for Sustainable Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9927-6_6
Chapter 6
SDG 5 Gender Equality
Not Just a Women’s Issue: Sustainable
Leadership in Male Dominated
Industries – The Case of the Extractive Industry
Isabel B. Franco, Paulina Salinas Meruane, and Ellen Derbyshire
Abstract Male-dominated and gender-segregated fields, such as the extractive
industry, present key limitations for sustainable leadership opportunities and career
growth for women. By identifying these existing barriers and addressing necessary
actions to be taken, research findings show that success in this area largely depends
on the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, that is, governments, corporations,
higher education institutions and civil society organizations. This study will provide
a qualitative assessment of current leadership and organizational discourse in order
to build knowledge and understanding of the limiting factors and barriers that prevent women from embarking on a sustainable leadership pathway in the early stages
of their career. These limiting factors are grouped into three categories, namely,
sociocultural, corporate and governance factors. Some specific challenges identified
by participants include maternal, family, cultural conceptions of gender roles and
norms as well as workplace diversity. These variables all contribute to a gender and
culturally normative ecosystem that present competitive barriers for career development for women.
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
P. S. Meruane
School of Journalism, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
e-mail: psalinas@ucn.cl
E. Derbyshire
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Business School, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
e-mail: ellen.derbyshire@uq.net.au