These Women Are Taking On a Traditionally Male Industry
- Energy industry has been slow to increase women in workforce
- Many Asian refiners lag behind global peers in gender balance
Photographer: Jean Chung/Bloomberg
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Ryu Bokyoung is confident she can do anything a man does in the sprawling Ulsan refinery in South Korea, be it scaling 100-meter steel towers or working through the night when repairing the plant. The challenges that come with being a woman in the traditionally male-dominated oil industry have never stopped her.
But she worries a baby might.