ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the contemporary situation of gender, extractivism, and climate change—and where the future may take us. During those years, in the 90s, women and Indigenous people actually shared a lot of commonality, when it came to why they were being excluded from the best paying trades jobs. Thirty years later, today we see the same trends occurring related to the predominance of White males in the highest paying and most skilled occupations in mining. At that time, we tried to open doors for women by taking advantage of government programmes and partnering with feminist organizations even though our agendas were fundamentally different. Fast forward again to 2008, just before Ontario's Mining Act was modernized to stimulate the need for mining companies and First Nations to have a relationship—a relationship that for the first time considered inclusion for Indigenous Peoples. The chapter focuses on how engrained masculinity and a certain economic structure are, in the oil industry culture.
