Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project
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Abstract
The development of the Hibernia offshore oilWeld was one of the largest construction projects in Canadian history.It required expenditures of over Wve billion dollars and was of great signiWcance to the economy of Canada and, in particular, Newfoundland and Labrador.Work developing the Bull Arm construction site, 140 kilometres west of St. John's, started in late 1990.This was where the massive concrete base of the production platform and some of the modules and assemblies for the topsides (the drilling, processing, and accommodations complex that sits on the base) were built, and where the topsides were assembled and mated with the base.The project employed, at peak, nearly 7,000 people, most of them at the construction site.Work at the site ended in the summer of 1997, with the platform being towed out to the oilWeld shortly after.The project would not have proceeded but for major Wnancial support by the federal and provincial governments.The former committed to pay 25 percent of the construction costs to a total of $1.04 billion and provide loan guarantees for 40 percent of these costs to a maximum of $1.66 billion.The main motivation for this was spelled out by the senior federal representative at the 1990 signing ceremony: "The signiWcant Wnancial commitment by the federal government to make Hibernia happen is a clear demonstration of our determination to overcome regional disparities in Atlantic Canada."Given the size of the project and the levels of government involvement, it is not surprising that the project was used as a test-bed for initiatives in the area of public policy.These included training, hiring, accommodation, and other policies and programs designed to encourage the employment of women in both traditional and male-dominated occupations at the construction site.However, the project was a very challenging environment for such initiatives, bringing together, as it did, the cultures of the oil and construction industries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".