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Kōrero: Workforce composition

Male tunnellers

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Male tunnellers

The construction industry is one of the few still heavily dominated by male workers, as this February 2009 photo shows. These tunnellers are celebrating breaking through to the Parnell side of a tunnel under Hobson Bay in Auckland.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Kenny Rodger

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, Workforce composition – Men’s work, women’s work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22692/male-tunnellers (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, i tāngia i te 14 April 2010.