Is There a Place for Women in the Polish Mines?—Selected Issues in the Context of Sustainable Development

Pactwa, Katarzyna

doi:10.3390/su11092511

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“…At the same time, among the risks in achieving the aforementioned goal were discrimination against female candidates in recruitment processes, discrimination against female employees in professional development processes, and a lack of acknowledgment of gender-based violence. This is confirmed in the literature [59,67].…”

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“…Since 2018, Barrick Gold has recorded a regular increase in the share of women on the board of directors and executive committee, declaring in the diversity policy target for women to represent at least 30% of directors by the end of 2022. The mining industry (similarly to the energy production or construction sectors) is masculine [59]. This trend was confirmed by the results of the share of women in employment for KGHM (7.18% in 2017) and the lack of data for the following years (Table 7).…”

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confidence: 61%

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Declaration of the Sustainable Development Goals of Mining Companies and the Effect of Their Activities in Selected Areas

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The article addresses the issues of sustainable development in relation to a selected group of mining companies. The main objective of the article was to verify the companies’ declarations on the convergence of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the assessment of their actual actions. In order to achieve this objective, the authors hypothesized and adopted, among others, a multi-stage logical thinking-based methodology. In addition, several research methods were used, i.e., a review of regulations and scientific articles, a qualitative literature review—extracting and collecting information, developing a categorization framework, and a comparative method based on a case study. The study started with extracting and collecting social and environmental information disclosed by Polish mining companies at the level of declaring SDGs targets (KGHM, LW Bogdanka, and JSW). Sourced from reports and company statements. In the next step, a leader (KGHM) was selected, and a comparison was made with a global enterprise (Barrick Gold), according to the adopted categorization framework for social initiatives. Common areas of both SDGs declarations and actions for these entities were identified, and measures of their implementation were suggested. Two main metrics were proposed for the social area, i.e., health and safety in relation to the financial performance of the companies and diversity in management and supervisory bodies. The role and importance of the prioritization of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) disclosures by the industry players are indicated.

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“…The mining industry is renowned for above-average remunerations relative to other industries (Pactwa, 2019).…”

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Factors affecting the attraction of women to technical mining positions in South Africa

Mashaba,

Botha

2023

SA Journal of Human Resource Management

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Orientation: Since the advent of democracy, various laws and policies have been enacted to redress past inequalities concerning women’s inclusion in mining.Research purpose: The study aimed to investigate factors influencing women’s attraction to technical positions in the South African mining industry and to also uncover what could be done to encourage their successful participation in the industry.Motivation for the study: Despite the availability of opportunities in the mining industry, women’s occupancy of technical positions is moving at a snail’s pace.Research approach/design and method: The research was conducted using a convergent parallel mixed-methods research design, with a sample consisting of women in technical mining positions and employer representatives.Main findings: The exploratory factor analysis identified four factors as important for attracting women to technical mining positions. These were application and development value, interest value, economic value and social value. The qualitative findings revealed that the following barriers affect the inclusion of women in mining: the lack of career awareness of mining-related qualifications; the notion that mining jobs are physically demanding for women; work-life balance issues and a workplace culture in mining that is perceived as unwelcoming to women.Practical/managerial implications: This research is significant in that it provides employers and human resource managers with information about factors affecting the attraction of women to technical positions in South Africa’s mining industry and globally.Contribution/value-add: This study contributes to the body of knowledge on women in mining, generally, and the factors attracting women to technical mining positions, specifically.

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“…The need for gender equality-based policies is imperative for empowering women in the mining sector. Pactwa [13] argued that women's mining jobs are minimal and ordinary, as working in mines remains to be considered as having a masculinity factor. Hence, the mining sector's career growth is very restricted, and only a few women reached the top hierarchy of the management.…”

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Ecofeminism and Natural Resource Management: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

2021

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Women have a right to excel in all spheres of activity. However, their roles are mainly confined in the resource extraction industry due to masculinity bias. African women are considered exemplary cases where women have low access to finance and economic opportunities to progress in the natural resource industry. This study examines the role of women’s autonomy in mineral resource extraction by controlling ecological footprints, financial development, environmental degradation, economic growth, and changes in the general price level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo data from 1975–2019. The autoregressive distributed lag estimates show that in the short-run, women’s autonomy decreases mineral resource rents; however, this result disappears in the long-run and the positive role of women’s autonomy in increasing resource capital is confirmed. Ecological footprints are in jeopardy from saving mineral resources both in the short- and long-term. Financial development negatively impacts mineral resource rents, while women’s access to finance supports the mineral resource agenda. The positive role of women in environmental protection has led to increased mineral resource rents in the short- and long-term. Women’s social and economic autonomy increases mineral resource rents in the short-term, while it has evaporated in the long-term. The Granger causality has confirmed the unidirectional linkages running from women’s green ecological footprints, access to finance, and women participating in environmental protection to mineral resource rents in a country. The variance decomposition analysis has shown that women’s economic autonomy and access to finance will exert more significant variance shocks to mineral resource rents over the next ten years’ period. The results conclude the positive role of women’s freedom in the mineral resource sustainability agenda. Thus, there is a high need to authorize women through access to finance and economic decisions to restore natural resource capital nationwide.

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Is There a Place for Women in the Polish Mines?—Selected Issues in the Context of Sustainable Development

Cited by 12 publications

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Declaration of the Sustainable Development Goals of Mining Companies and the Effect of Their Activities in Selected Areas

Declaration of the Sustainable Development Goals of Mining Companies and the Effect of Their Activities in Selected Areas

Factors affecting the attraction of women to technical mining positions in South Africa

Ecofeminism and Natural Resource Management: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

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