TEAM PLAYERS?

Based upon my experience as the only female working for a construction company, this essay examines the impact of gender roles upon professional and personal relationships. It opens with a narrative of my first-ever attempt at playing paintball with my co-workers; incorporates my reflections about the increasingly war-like and misogynistic nature of the games as the day wore on; and concludes with an analysis of how gender determined how we played games-both on the field that day and in subsequent interactions when we returned to work.