This article was first published in CIM Magazine in October 2011.
Discussions on gender in the mining industry are generally limited to the under-representation of women in the workforce and the “glass ceiling” they encounter. There seems to be an assumption that safety has nothing to do with gender: we are not taking gender seriously. However, I believe we do so at our own peril. Many different research methods have been used to investigate the relationship between gender and risk, and the conclusions are always the same: men take more risks than women.
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