Today miners are again facing tough operating times but for women in the industry, things could arguably never be better.
The Department of Family and Community Services’s Women in NSW 2012 report shows that about 5000 women are employed statewide in mining and that figure has almost doubled since 1997.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association says women fill 18 per cent of the nation’s mining jobs and in March this year the NSW Minerals Council launched Women in Mining NSW, designed both to give women in the industry a chance to network and to help boost the number of females in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry.
Click here to read the full article published in the Newcastle Herald on 12 November 2012.
