Women Miners
Women represent about 20% of people classified as artisanal mining producers in Peru, reported the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
According to official sources, there are now 2,209 “headlines qualified” as mining producers and the percentage of women tends to increase every day for your interest today awakens in them an activity once thought reserved for boys. “
Currently, the report added, are 404 artisanal mining production companies working in a formal way, but a significantly higher number works in the informal small-scale mining, “which no formalized few seriously aspire.”
These data were offered during the second training workshop for the Formalization in mining, which organized this week’s ministerial office.
At that meeting it was evident the presence of women interested in knowing the steps to obtain a mining concession, and appropriate technologies for the exploration and exploitation with social and environmental responsibility, “said the MEM.
Chuquicongo Clotilde, one of the participants in the workshop and president of the National Association of Women miners, has a contract with Peru Metal allows you to work in copper production in the province of Caravelí, in the southern region of Arequipa .
Chuquicongo, who has four children, is an expert in handling equipment for mineral extraction and previously worked in gold production at the mine’s southern Saramarca.
Another of the women participating in the workshop, Vilma Contreras Vargas, president of the Association of Miners River Taurus Fatima Malinowski of the jungle region of Madre de Dios.
Also the mother of four children, Contreras worked for thirteen years in gold mining in the rivers of the region with her husband, although she works mainly in the Admin.
The Role of Women in Mining
In recent years, women have made great progress in the occupation of positions considered exclusively male, in the mining sector.
Some experts believe that the influx of women in the mining sector, can bring new life into a sector considered very difficult. The mining sector has been a male influence, vertical, women’s ability to understand and deal with issues more subtly, through persuasion, can become the guide to provide direction to a new mining.
The fact add to the women at work has a strong impact on reducing poverty, since many households have a single woman as head of household.
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