The intractable challenges faced by female mine workers have come to dominate the discourse and scholarship on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations. However, the extensive focus on the informal and labour-intensive segments has engendered a failure to capture the nuances in the duality of ASM operations and how it impacts female outcomes. Drawing on intersectionality as a lens, in this article the authors map the dynamics on how issues related to the gender, situatedness and positionality of female mine workers interact to shape their situated labour outcomes. Highlighting the differentiated outcomes for female mine workers within the contingencies of the broader socio-cultural context in which ASM work is organised, the article sheds light on how the social identity structures such as gender, sexuality and class interact to give form to the marginalisation, occupational roles, the ‘boom town’ narrative and occupational and health challenges that characterise the ASM gendered economic space.

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“采矿妇女”和生计：审视 ASM 性别经济领域的主要问题和新出现的问题

女性矿工面临的棘手挑战已成为有关手工和小规模采矿 (ASM) 作业的讨论和学术的主流。然而，对非正规和劳动密集型领域的广泛关注导致未能捕捉到手工和小规模经营的双重性及其对女性结果的影响。在这篇文章中，作者以交叉性为视角，描绘了与女性矿工的性别、处境和位置相关的问题如何相互作用以塑造其处境劳动结果的动态图。本文强调了在组织 ASM 工作的更广泛的社会文化背景下，女性矿工的不同结果，并阐明了性别、性取向和阶级等社会身份结构如何相互作用，从而形成边缘化，职业角色、“新兴城镇”叙事以及职业和健康挑战是 ASM 性别经济空间的特征。