{"id":824,"date":"2019-04-16T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mineralscouncil.org.za\/womeninmining\/?p=824"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:41:17","slug":"women-in-mining-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mineralscouncil.org.za\/womeninmining\/about\/initiatives\/women-in-mining-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in mining in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-default-font-size\">16 April 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Women working in the mining industry should have the same opportunities open to them as men, and must be safe to pursue them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women in the South African mining industry face a range of challenges \u2013 some shared by their male counterparts and many that are theirs alone. The Minerals Council and its member companies work to ensure that women working in the industry have the same opportunities open to them as men \u2013 and that they are safe to pursue them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mineralscouncil.org.za\/component\/jdownloads\/?task=download.send&amp;id=898-minerals-council-publishes-white-paper-focused-on-streamlining-industry-strategies-to-advance-women-in-mining&amp;catid=60&amp;m=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media release: Minerals Council publishes White Paper focused on streamlining industry strategies to advance women in mining<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mineralscouncil.org.za\/component\/jdownloads\/?task=download.send&amp;id=896-women-in-mining-in-south-africa&amp;catid=16&amp;m=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fact sheet: Women in mining in South Africa<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mineralscouncil.org.za\/component\/jdownloads\/?task=download.send&amp;id=1218-white-paper-women-in-mining&amp;catid=37&amp;m=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White paper: Women in mining<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women working in the mining industry should have the same opportunities open to them as men, and must be safe to pursue them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-about","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26","category-initiatives","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women in Mining in South Africa | Women in Mining<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minerals Council and its members work to ensure that women working in the industry have the same opportunities as men. 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