The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and to have work practices detrimental to employees’ wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory and a rapid ethnographic approach in two construction multinationals in Australia, we examine the relationship between the gendered nature of construction and workplace wellbeing for professional women and men employed in the industry. The findings reveal that adhering to the gendered ‘rules in use’ in the construction industry is negatively associated with wellbeing and is usually endured in silence. We also identify the ways in which the gendered rules have different effects on the wellbeing of men and women. We conclude that the construction industry is characterised by a set of ‘greedy’ gendered institutions that are inextricably linked to workplace wellbeing for both men and women and that these rules must be broken to improve worker wellbeing.

众所周知，建筑行业是男性化的，其工作习惯不利于员工的健康。借鉴女权主义制度理论和澳大利亚两家建筑跨国公司的快速人种志方法，我们研究了建筑业的性别特征与该行业职业男女之间工作场所幸福之间的关系。研究结果表明，在建筑行业中遵守性别“使用规则”与福祉负相关，并且通常会默默忍受。我们还确定了性别规则对男人和女人的幸福产生不同影响的方式。