IFC GUIDE HELPS WOMEN ENTER SOUTH AFRICAN MINES
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOUTH African companies are being encouraged by a World Bank agency to employ more women in mines. The bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) regards the feminisation of this traditionally male industrial bastion as a key tool for social and economic development. It and major South African platinum miner Lonmin Plc have launched a guide to help mining companies incorporate women into their workforce. South African mining legislation says 10% of the overall workforce should be female, but with company facilities designed to suit male ...
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