Women ought to break down barriers in mining
Friday, September 22, 2017
Out of the 6,900 Debswana employees, about 98% are locals. From this, about 20% are women. According to different speakers at the Women In Mining conference held recently, this number could improve if women considered alternatives to white-collar jobs, which are mostly based in towns and cities.
For decades their male counterparts have dominated the enrolment of engineers in universities, which resulted in the current dominance in the industry. Experts believe that one of the challenges is that women tend to expect preferential treatment while working at industries like mining unlike their male counterparts instead of working hard and proving that they belong.
The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...