"There's a reason why the angels didn't
want you to go today."
Stay home, watch MKR, it could be the
highest score ever tonight, Revenge is
on....I have lists to sort, and hmm a red
wine is looking mighty fine. Perhaps I
averted worse by not being on that
highway? I'm all about going with the
flow!
I checked my emails, and as I recently
signed up for the WIMARQ list they
emailed me a link to the International
Women’s Day Breakfast and Resources
Awards for Women. Wow! What an
inspiration these chicks are, and they
are real peeps, like me. It is great to see
the new vision of 20% by 2020 of
women in the workforce in nontraditional roles. The interviews and
key note speakers inspired me to put
pen to paper, fingers to digital, and
share my thoughts, and I am only half
way through the video.
More women in the resources sector is
a fact of life now. Do you embrace
them, (not literally!) or think their
place is barefoot in the kitchen and
pushing a pram? This statement
sounds so wrong nowadays, but it was
only a few years ago a lovely old
fella...yes you!...said that to me, and 4
other women sitting in the crib hut.
Lucky he could duck. Yes he was
stirring us and it was said tongue in
cheek, but was he only verbalising
what others think? What you perhaps
think? Well I am sure, especially if you
have been in mining for a long time,
you are seeing the changes. Hopefully
for the most part you are now
accepting us as part of the furniture,
and valuable members of your crew
and mining life. Who knows, perhaps
you are trying to get your
daughter/granddaughter or wife out
here too? Would you want them to be
treated with respect and helped and
supported on their journey?
I speak from an operator's point of
view, but there are plenty of women in
the resources sector kicking ass in the
engineering, trades, supervising,
management and many more roles
now. I can't wait for the day the fitter
that comes to fix my truck is a chick!
Happy 106th International Women's
Day, and you can thank my v8 for this
article...bloody Fords!! Now back to
the video...
Cheers
Mad Mumzie
Published By Mad Mumzie April 30, 2015