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How Australia’s mining sector locks women out of high-paying roles

  • Written by Michelle Gander, Associate Professor, Business, Murdoch University
How Australia’s mining sector locks women out of high-paying roles

Mining is a critical industry for the Australian economy and has the potential to offer secure, well-paid and meaningful careers.

But the evidence from our review of the 29 studies of 40 years of research on women working in the Australian mining sector is clear: gender inequality is built into the structures, cultures and places that define the...

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