Women in Mining and the Responsible Gold Mining Principles: A Guide to Best Practice

The Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs) explicitly address the need to support women in mining and women in communities around mine sites. The inclusion of these Principles represents widespread external stakeholder input that gender is an important issue for the gold mining sector, where further action is required. A growing number of companies have made significant progress in recent years, although much still remains to be done.