Gender Role Transformation in the Oil Mining Industry in ...
Gender roles are a critical component in measuring how advanced a community is in respect to economic changes. Policies on controlling mining industries have been associated with changes in gender gap that is extremely unbalanced in oil mining industry. Countries including South Africa, India, Nigeria and other known mining countries have enacted
The gendered impacts of mining | Oxfam Australia
The impacts of mining are not gender neutral. Women often experience the negative impacts of mining more than men, and rarely receive the benefits that men do. Our work shows that: women are not consulted when companies negotiate access to land, compensation or benefits
Women and Gender in Mining: Challenging Masculinity ...
The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities.
Gender in the Mining Industry - ROAPE
Feb 10, 2016 · In Thandi Dlaminis report on mining in South Africa she writes how more than twenty years after democracy women make up only 11% of the operational mining workforce in South Africa. Before 1994, underground work was exclusively for males. This report assesses the possible side effects of the mining industry’s apparent new found enthusiasm for female employees.
Is gender inequality mining’s ESG blindspot? - MINING.COM
Jun 23, 2020 · Despite an increasing focus on ESG, mining companies are failing to consider the disproportionate effects of mining on women and girls, says …
A social relations of gender analysis of artisanal and ...
Much research on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has tended to focus on describing the different roles women undertake in mining, while there has been less attention to how gender relations are constructed, reinforced and challenged in and through ASM.
Extracting equality: gender and the African mining ...
Extracting equality: gender and the African mining industry. In this guest blog, Anja Tolonen, assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, discusses the costs and benefits of large-scale mining for women across Africa.
GENDER AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES: PUTTING …
Gender-blind policies and practices in company–community ... The South African gold mining industry is facing a series of massive class action lawsuits from many thousands of current and former mine workers with silicosis.1 Silicosis is a degenerative and often deadly disease of
Women, mining and development: An emerging research agenda ...
Nov 01, 2014 · Although both historically and more recently, mining and miners have been associated with strongly male traits and identities (Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre, 2006b, Lahiri-Dutt, 2010), the reality of the situation is in fact a lot more complex, with women participating in a wide range of mining and mining-related activities across the global North and South (Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre, 2006b).
Gender in Extractive Industries
The Gender and Extractive Industries Program, managed by the Bank’s Oil, Gas and Mining unit, raises awareness of the gender dimensions of the extractive industries, to ensure that all Bank-supported projects consider the needs and contributions of both men and women. Benefits of Including Womens Perspectives in Extractive Industries
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REPORT: Is gender equality minings ESG blind spot ...
Jun 22, 2020 · The report, entitled Gender inequality runs deep in mining, looked at the gender-related ESG policies and practices of 38 large-scale mining companies, from tracking and reporting diversity at the board level to measures supporting local procurement from women.
International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing ...
IJGSDS provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers working in the field of gender/ womens studies studies to disseminate information and to learn from each others work. Contents. IJGSDS publishes original papers, review papers, case studies and book reviews.
Roles and status of women in extractive ... - SAGE Journals
Dec 01, 2007 · Gender and Mining in Kenya: The Case of the Mukibira Mines in the Vihiga District, Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Womens Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1 – 23. Google Scholar Barnes, Lindsay (2006).
(PDF) The act that shaped the gender of industrial mining ...
The stone shows how womens labor in mines—within a strict sex-based division of tasks—was, and remains, subject to gender ideologies that are not only propagated at home, but assume an ...
Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional ...
Among men, inequality initially increases as mining employment in a region increases, but then sharply decreases; at high levels of mining activity, income inequality among men is lower than is typically observed in non‐mining areas. Among women, income inequality increases with mining activity throughout its range.
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Gender mainstreaming in mine action - Wikipedia
General. Gender mainstreaming in mine action is derived from the fact that women and men often have different roles and responsibilities within their communities or families and consequently different decision-making power, mobility patterns, information and control over resources. The different positions of men and women have an influence on their exposure to landmines and explosive remnants ...
Climate change and gender - Wikipedia
Climate change and gender is a way to interpret the disparate impacts of climate change on men and women, based on the social construction of gender roles and relations.. Climate change increases gender inequality, reduces womens ability to be financially independent, and has an overall negative impact on the social and political rights of women, especially in economies that are heavily based ...