Women in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Africa

Hinton, Jennifer; Hinton, Barbara E.; Veiga, Marcello M.

doi:10.4324/9781315233734-11

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“…According to Hinton and al [15], women's participation in sector can have a significant impact on agricultural production and even food shortages [15]. This massive participation of women in artisanal mining is often due to drought, loss or destruction of arable land, natural disasters, etc.…”

Section: Women and Access To Employment In Artisanal Mining Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Artisanal Mining, Employment and Empowerment in the North and East of Côte d’Ivoire

Romuald¹,

Gbane²,

Koffi³

2019

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This study aims to analyze the impact of mining activities and the empowerment of women on their involvement in household development. This involvement is perceived through the level of empowerment of women in household. Methodologically, an index of empowerment is designed from methods of inertia. Then, employability of women in artisanal mine is modeled from her characteristics. Finally, a logit model is established to measure factors impacting women's empowerment at household level. It emerges that the level of women's empowerment in her household increases as she earns an income of 60,000 FCFA and more per month. In addition, 66.21% of women are autonomous at household level. Therefore, it is appropriate to re-examine current conditions of employment of women, without favoring it in less risky or affordable work.

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Section: Women and Access To Employment In Artisanal Mining Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Artisanal Mining, Employment and Empowerment in the North and East of Côte d’Ivoire

Romuald¹,

Gbane²,

Koffi³

2019

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“…The body of work pursuing these aims views artisanal mining as a globalised and gendered workplace, where local concepts of gender roles conflict with imported values and reproduce or change in many ways (Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre 2006). This thesis follows Lahiri-Dutt's theoretical framing, working with her ideas in the case of DRC.…”

Section: I41 the Women-mining-globalisation Nexusmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In recent years, a number of studies have explored and discussed women's position in the mining industry, with the aim of challenging the hegemonic masculinity of the sector (Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre 2006). Worldwide, women comprise up to 30% of the artisanal mining workforce and are involved in several activities, ranging from labour-intensive mining methods to the processing phase of mineral exploitation .…”

Section: I4 Theoretical Perspectives On Women and Miningmentioning

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“…Rather, mining also includes relations between the local and the global, with even rural and remote areas being in contact with and influenced by the global market. This literature has reported the fact that women have been excluded from mining employment, suffered poor working conditions and had fewer opportunities compared with men, and mining has been discussed as having a negative effect on the social and family lives of women (as wives) (Lahiri-Dutt 2008;Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre 2006). The discrimination that women face in the mining environment is usually culturally based, involving traditional taboos (Hayes and Perks 2012;Heemskerk 2003).…”

Section: I41 the Women-mining-globalisation Nexusmentioning

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“…Existing research has demonstrated that, worldwide, women form a significant portion of the population coming to mining areas. Evidence suggests that women do not just come as dependents but are also themselves active in artisanal mining, either directly or in an indirect manner Heemskerk 2000Heemskerk , 2003Labonne 1996;Lahiri-Dutt and Macintyre 2006;Werthmann 2009). However, women's economic roles in mining have received limited attention.…”

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Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC

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A gendered resource curse? Mineral ownership, female unemployment and domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Schneider

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Several studies suggest that the extractive industry has negative consequences for gender equality despite the often positive growth impact of natural resources. We re-examine this claim at the sub-state level in sub-Saharan Africa and argue that we need to differentiate between ownership arrangements in the extractive industry. To test our argument on the gender dimension of the resource curse, this article employs unique data on the control rights of minerals within sub-Saharan countries as well as data from Afrobarometer and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Our quantitative analyses explore how international vs. domestic ownership of copper, diamond and gold mines affects the labor market integration of females and intimate partner violence. The regression results suggest in line with our theoretical expectations that gender-specific structural labor market shifts within extractive industries are contingent on mineral control rights. Our models show that within mining areas, only domestic ownership reduces male unemployment. While domestic mining seems to reinforce the traditional male breadwinner model, internationally owned mineral extraction induces structural labor market changes: women

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Women in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Africa

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Artisanal Mining, Employment and Empowerment in the North and East of Côte d’Ivoire

Artisanal Mining, Employment and Empowerment in the North and East of Côte d’Ivoire

Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC

A gendered resource curse? Mineral ownership, female unemployment and domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC

A gendered resource curse? Mineral ownership, female unemployment and domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

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