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| A PATH TO GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT | | | Gender equality is a key factor in poverty reduction and sustainable development. In many EI communities, gender bias exists in the distribution of risks and benefits: the risks, such as environmental damage and social harm, fall more heavily on women, while the benefits, such as employment and compensation, accrue mostly to men. More... | | | | Feature | | | Mexican Women Defy Taboos, Prejudice to Work in Mines
El Universal, May 30, 2007
BY JUAN DAVID LEAL CHIHUAHUA - Two hundred women have overcome male chauvinism and superstition to carve out a niche - albeit tiny - in Mexico´s expanding mining industry. Resistance to females in mining springs both from the sexism that remains rampant in Mexico and from miners´ lore, which holds that mines entered by women will experience accidents or see their mineral deposits run out. Old-timers say such calamities occur when the feminine spirit that inhabits the mine reacts with jealousy to the presence of female rivals. more... No Progress Without Women The World Bank calls for the improvement of the impact of extractive industries projects on women.The World Bank’s Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division joined forces with the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) to discuss private sector perspectives on sustainability and gender in a policy luncheon hosted by the Bank. The panel concluded that "...in a world where women comprise a clear majority of the poorest 1.3 billion people, earn only 10 percent of the world’s income, and own only 1 percent of the world’s property, there will be no sustainable development without women’s economic empowerment." |  | | Presentations now available | Sustainability and Gender: Private Sector Perspectives--Exploring how executive women can contribute to women's sustainable economic empowerment in the developing world. Seminar held on March 6, 2007 at World Bank Headquarters.
| | | | Women’s Economic Empowerment as Smart Economics | Despite the enormous progress achieved in social indicators, women and girls still lag behind economically. World leaders convened in Berlin on February 22-23, 2007 to discuss the World Bank's Gender Action Plan, as well as equal rights, the role of women in economic growth and their access to resources. Women’s Economic Empowerment as Smart Economics was sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany, in cooperation with The World Bank Group, OECD Development Assistance Committee, Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. The conference looked at how best to increase the productivity and earnings of women producers; women’s access to formal financial services; young women’s transition to quality employment; the number of women starting agribusinesses; women’s access to essential infrastructure services, particularly transport, water and energy. For more on the conference, click here. | | | | Related material | | | Papua New Guinea—Women in Mining: National Action Plan, 2007-2012 HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector: A Resource for Developing Stakeholder Competency and Compliance in Mining Communities in Southern Africa (HIV/AIDS & Mining Toolkit) (4.4 KB pdf) Women in Mining News Article, "Time for Silesian Women," Published in: Newsweek, April 17, 2005, Reprinted with permission
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