Status of Women committee  It's never just about salary. I think it's about communicating to potential employees of the mining sector what the modern mining industry offers. We're not saying it's for everyone, but I think we offer a compelling value proposition to male and female potential employees. The p

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, we work in a relatively heavily unionized sector and there are significant benefits in place that go well beyond compensation and that involve paid leave and professional development and a number of other factors that were deemed to be of high value to potential emplo

Status of Women committee  I agree with what Jennifer and Nancy just said. I think it's bang on. We do a lot of celebrating some of those successes as well, but clearly more needs to be done. Just to give you one example, a few weeks ago, a Canadian mining company painted a 400-ton truck pink. It was a bi

Status of Women committee  It was Goldcorp. It was done at a Goldcorp mine in Mexico, but it is a Canadian company, and it's something they wanted to highlight as part of their strategy in Mexico.

Status of Women committee  I am seeing it.

Status of Women committee  I've been in this industry for 12 years, and 12 years ago nobody was talking about it, but they certainly are today.

Status of Women committee  That is a very good question. Several ongoing projects are attempting to determine the reasons that prevent us from eliminating the obstacles to the promotion of women. Of course we would like to have more resources to promote the industry to young people, women and aboriginal p

Status of Women committee  The question was about the first female president of the Mining Association of Canada. There are number of female executives who work in the industry, and we're seeing that trend continue.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  We are. That is one of the reasons I think the security regulators in Canada are starting to move to mandatory reporting on diversity measures. If they weren't already employing women on boards, they certainly will be now. What is very important in our industry is our corpora

Status of Women committee  Yes. Let us say that the obstacles we detected were determined in various studies carried out by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council, or done in cooperation with our partners in various areas of the country.

Status of Women committee  Constantly may be a strong word. We have published a number of best practices guidelines over the last decade or so. We've probably developed half a dozen reports now on diversity metrics in the mining industry looking at best practices around attraction, recruitment, and engagem

Status of Women committee  What I can say, specific to the mining industry, is that we are producing a lot. If I take geosciences, half of the graduating classes of geologists are women. In fact in most schools, it's significantly more than 50%. Yet that number has not translated or made its way into the i

Status of Women committee  Part of our approach is to build networks of champions who voluntarily participate and want to make a meaningful change in their organizations. We have, what I'd call, our fingers on the pulse of a number of labour market challenges in our sector. We survey all mining companies o

Status of Women committee  It's either a senior-level executive or somebody in the organization such as a VP of HR, a director of HR, or a mine manager, who wants to effect meaningful change in their organization and who has the support of senior leadership to implement or to make changes to the policy of