The Business Case for Gender and Mining (English)

Mining companies have a tremendous opportunity and untapped resource available to them in the form of the women in their communities and workforce. By recognizing the potential for strengthening the workforce, supply chain, and their ability to understand and address local concerns, as well as working to uncover and address biases endemic to the industry, the mining sector has the chance to lead the way on a significant shift, while benefitting in the process. While mining may be one of the more challenging sectors in which to move the needle on gender equity, more and more firms are rising to the challenge. Firms that resist these shifts will not only lose potential applicants, but also competitive advantage. The tools in this toolkit can help companies to benefit from this growing trend, wherever they currently find themselves in the process.