2023-09-27 00:18:31
Female employment in the mining sector represents almost 13% of the total positions that reach more than 14,000 workers, with their participation being even more minority in technical and operational roles, but it is estimated that by 2037 it will reach 30% of the workforce, according to the Fundar research center.
“The participation of women workers in metal and lithium production is reduced, selective and embryonic. They make up no more than 12.6% of the jobs registered between both areas of the sector,” according to data from December 2022 that captures the Information System Open to the Community on Mining Activity.
In this sense, the document prepared by the entity highlighted that if the average interannual growth in the level of employment of both genders from 2018 to 2022 is taken into account, we should wait at least 15 years for women to make up only 30 % of the workforce in large-scale mining.
On the other hand, the growth of female workers in metal and lithium production was highlighted, which registers accelerated progress compared to male workers.
In this way, while the male workforce at the end of 2022 was 78% higher than in 2007, the jump was 159% among women.
Finally, if these figures are compared regionally, the masculinization of the mining industry is a global problem since Argentina surpasses Peru (7%), it is close to Colombia (13%), but it is far from the situation in Chile (17%). %) and other mining geographies such as South Africa (17%), Australia (18%), Canada (19%) or Sweden (25%), the survey specified.
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