Exploring Underrepresentation in Mining: Aboriginal Peoples, Gender and Immigrants in our Sector

Agenda

• Project Background• Women in Mining & MiHR’s Research• Aboriginal People in Mining & MiHR’s Research• Immigrants in Mining & MiHR’s Research• What’s Next?! & How YOU Can Help!

Sector Study Research – Diversity in Mining

• Purpose: to support the increased labour market understanding of the impacts of gender, and the experiences of Aboriginal peoples and immigrants, on inclusion in mining.

• Outcomes:1. deeper understanding of the sector specific employment barriers.

2. recommendations for addressing barriers in the industry in order to improve attraction, recruitment, development and retention.

• Why this Research?• It hasn’t been done…• We need the numbers...• We need to understand the context…

The State of The Sector – Diversity in Mining

Women in Mining in Canada

Women in Mining in Canada

Women in Mining in Canada – Occupation Specifics

What We Already Know About Women in Mining

• Emerging Barriers • Remote Work Locations• Lack of Women in Senior Leadership• Role Models and Mentorship• Problematic Workplace Culture

Our Research Direction - Gender

Understand Gendered

Career Paths

Conduct a Gender Based

Analysis of Mining

Workplace Culture

What are the gendered barriers, opportunities and experiences found

in the mining sector, as

understood and experienced by both men and

women? Strategic Gender

Diversity Practices

Research Direction – Gender

• Sex: the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.

• Gender: the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

• Sexuality: an individual's physical and/or emotional attraction to the same and/or opposite gender.

• Research Direction: Gender Focus

Aboriginal Peoples in Mining in Canada

Aboriginal Peoples in Mining in Canada

Aboriginal Peoples in Mining in Canada – Occupation Specifics

What We Already Know About Aboriginal Peoples in Mining

• Key Themes• Need for Capacity Building – Education and Training• Remote Work Locations• Career Advancement and Leadership• Exclusionary Workplace Culture/Climate

Our Research Direction – Aboriginal Peoples

Understand Aboriginal

Career Paths

Examination of Mining

Workplace Culture

What are the barriers,

opportunities and experiences found

in the mining sector, as

understood by Aboriginal

peoples and community, and mining firms? Aboriginal

Workforce in Mining

Partnership Review

Immigrants in Mining in Canada

Immigrants in Mining in Canada

Immigrants in Mining in Canada – Occupation Specific

Background Research - Immigrants

• Emerging Barriers• Lack of Career Awareness/Lack of Industry Awareness• Skill/Credential Recognition• Remote Work Locations and Relocation

Our Research Direction – Immigrants

Validation of Workplace Barriers for

Immigrants – Mining

Specific

Understanding Immigrant

Career Paths

What are the employment

barriers, opportunities and

experiences of immigrants,

specific to the mining sector, that need to be understood to

increase inclusion?

Immigrant Inclusion in

Mining Program Review

How We Will Conduct Our Research

• Online Survey of Mining Employees

• Detailed Interviews with Employees and Elders

• Focus Groups with Immigrant Service Agencies and HR Managers

• Public Document Review and Interviews with Program Managers

How Can You Help?

1. Participate in the survey

2. Tell others about our research

3. Read and share our reports

Thank You

About MiHR:

The Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR) is a multipartite, industry-driven organization that brings all mining sector stakeholders together to address human resources issues.

Incorporated in 1996, MiHR is an independent not-for-profit organization. Today, MiHR is the recognized leader in the identification and analysis of HR issues facing the industry as well as the catalyst for the development and implementation of HR solutions.

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Want to talk about this study? sgauen@mihr.ca