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Published January 18, 2013, 12:00 AM

Gender


Christina Knapp, a tattoo artist, at J Dub's in Williston, N.D., Dec. 20, 2012. The oil boom has attracted droves of young men to work labor-intensive jobs in several counties in North Dakota, complicating life for the now outnumbered women. (Matthew Staver/The New York Times)