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Articles on WIM related issues
*”A Report to the "Women In Mining" Taskforce", by Catherine Pattenden, c/-Anthropology Programme, The University of Melbourne (November 1998).
*A report from South Africa of August 2001 on gender issues in the mining sector and mentioning in detail the current situation of women in the sector and the initiatives being taken to improve their possibilities. "The objective of this report is to investigate gender issues within South Africa’s mining sector with a view to understanding how these issues impact on Sustainable Development imperatives in the mining and minerals industry as part of a broader study of the Mining and Minerals for Sustainable Development initiative."
*”Women In Mining Industry”. by E J Wynn, SAusIMM, Paper presented at the Youth Congress 2001
*WIM & fly-in fly-out
Interesting research by 3 members of the Norman Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia - Canada
They are assessing the opportunities and challenges for women in the fly in fly out landscape of modern mining times.
If anyone wants to contact them: Silvana Costa, scosta@interchange.ubc.ca, Ana Carolina Silva, carolina@mining.ubc.ca, Vivien Hui, vivien_hui_214@hotmail.com
*The AusIMM has published in 2005 a paper on maternity and challenges it creates for women in mining, employers and employees.
Women AusIMM Members Tell Us About their Working Lifestyles
The University of Queensland Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) has conducted a survey on behalf of Macquarie Securities and The AusIMM to ask our members about their individual experiences of working in the minerals industry, and about their views on factors which could impact them and the profitability and futuregrowth of the industry. Of the 1249 members who responded, 119 or 8.8% were female. The survey, included several questions on attraction and retention in the minerals sector, looking at things such as remuneration, work/life balance, mentoring etc. The survey also asked respondents to make suggestions about what companies could do to better retain people. A total of 858 members and 91 women provide qualitative answers to this question. The next step at The AusIMM will be to analyse what you wrote together with the quantitative data, to provide an overview of what members want from their professional lives, in different disciplines, at different stages of their lives and along gender lines. The report will be published in The AusIMM Bulletin. Of the 119 women surveyed there were: 41 geologists, 20 metallurgists, 11 managers, 6 environment professionals and 13 other. Over 70% were partnered but only 32% had dependent children. (Jul/Aug 2003)
*“Women in The Resources Industry – The Challenges of Attraction and Retention”, by Miriam Lyons-Stanborough, AMMA National Conference, April 2007
*”Upcoming AJM Conference – Recruitment, Training & Retention for Women in Mining”, 23-23 August 2007, Brisbane
Livelihood Issues and Concerns of Women and Men in Small Mines and Quarries
of South Asia. By Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2007
Gender in Artisanal and Small Mines: an overview. Keynote speech by
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2007
Women in Mining Voices for Change A Vision for a Better Future, 2005
Small & Silent Achievements of Women in Small Scale Mining Communities in
Wau-Bulolo District (Papua New Guinea), June 2005
Tanzania: Women in the Mining Sector, 2001If you would like to make a submission to this section, please contact us at info@womeninmining.net
