ENVIRONMENT

One way to build diversity

RESEARCHERS at Melbourne’s Monash University have found BHP’s South Flank mine in Western Australia to be the most gender-balanced large mine in the country, with women making up 40% of the workforce and 60% of the management team.

 Miammi Leadbitter and Gabby Wilson

Miammi Leadbitter and Gabby Wilson

BHP set the goal in 2016 to have gender balance across the workforce by 2025. At the time women made up 17.6% of employee. That figure has risen to 33.6%. BHP Western Australia iron ore asset president...

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