ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issues that are significant for any consideration of the relationship between the discourses of masculinity/masculinities and the process of gender segregation at work. It raises the problem of women interviewing men about feminist issues concerning gender. References to patriarchy is an indicator of a literature that is attempting to be part of the movement towards the creation of radical social change, as opposed to those texts that reproduce reactionary and conservative accounts of masculinity. Sex-role theory skews conceptualisations of gender, and the attributes associated with masculinity and femininity, towards the notion that these are fixed roles that are learnt, either well or badly, depending on the quality of the socialisation. One of the most consistent themes that occurs and reoccurs throughout much of the literature on masculinity is the centrality of paid work to men's working lives and to the construction and reproduction of masculinity.
