LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY
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“ To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls .”
For Schlechter Kutscher ’ s team , the journey towards gender parity is an ongoing challenge . “ Although we have increased the participation of our professional female workers by four times in the past 20 years , at both operational and technical levels , the ratio remains practically the same ,” she says . “ We have a big challenge in increasing the number of female executives because there is still scarce talent in mining at that level . We will be focusing on preparing female management leaders and forming the capacities of young women in our country to join and to keep strengthening all segments .” Mining is the economic activity with the second lowest female participation in Chile at 8.4 %. However , Codelco is performing better than the national average at 9.9 %. Schlechter Kutscher is keen for Codelco to push further , fly the flag for Chile , and collaborate with both national and international companies in the country to promote the insertion of women into the industry .
OCTOBER 2019