LETTER: Mining sector needs to attract more women
Beyond improving gender ratios, mines should focus on strategies to nurture women’s progress and leadership in skilled careers
Bukiwe Pantshi's article on women in mining refers (“Low female representation blights mining despite progress in some sectors (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-02-16-low-female-representation-blights-mining-despite-progress-in-some-sectors/)”, February 16). The mining sector needs to make itself more attractive to women as a way of securing the high-level technical and professional skills and leadership qualities it needs from the brightest minds.
Much has been made of mining’s slow pace in attracting more women into its ranks, but the diagnosis of what keeps numbers so low is less clear. Even with the best will in the world the mining sector still projects an image that discourages women. This severely undermines the industry’s urgent need to stay abreast of the latest technologies in a range of mining-related professions, not just mining engineering...
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