This article examines the lives of Port Moresby women who work in the development sector of Papua New Guinea. In particular, it demonstrates how development discourse structures the very fabric of working relationships within this sector in Port Moresby. Underpinned by neocolonial geographies in which those in the global north rescue those in the global south, these discourses produce workplaces in which Papua New Guinean women are seen as lacking the moral and technical capacities to run development projects in their own country. The article argues that the privileges held by expatriates and denied to local women, in conjunction with the workplace discrimination to which they are subjected, ironically undermine the development sector's supposed commitment to promoting gender equality in Papua New Guinea.

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“两个不同的世界”：巴布亚新几内亚妇女在莫尔兹比港发展中工作

本文研究了在巴布亚新几内亚的发展部门工作的莫尔兹比港妇女的生活。特别是，它展示了发展话语如何构建莫尔斯比港这一部门内工作关系的结构。在新殖民地制的支持下，全球北部地区的人们拯救了南部南部地区的人们，这些话语造就了工作场所，在这些工作场所中，巴布亚新几内亚妇女被认为缺乏在自己的国家开展发展项目的道德和技术能力。文章认为，外籍人士所享有的特权以及剥夺当地妇女的特权，再加上他们所遭受的工作场所歧视，具有讽刺意味的是，破坏了发展部门对促进巴布亚新几内亚性别平等的承诺。