Month: August 2013
This article was first published in August 2013 in CIM Magazine.
Efforts to improve gender diversity in male-dominated industries like mining and construction are going nowhere. If we compare reports on women in mining today with those released almost twenty years ago, we find the same issues being discussed. We uncover the same problems and we recommend the same solutions. We continue to talk about numbers of women, insisting on the need for changes in recruitment practices, availability of more mentors, and provision of awards for women who have “made it”. The discussion about gender in these industries, and others like them, is always and only about what to do with women. The methodologies used in the research see women as the problem and women as the solution.
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