Position Paper on Gender Justice and the Extractive Industries
Publisher: Oxfam
Date: 2017
Topics: Extractive Resources, Gender
This paper outlines Oxfam’s position on gender justice in the context of extractive industries. It describes some of the causes and consequences of the EI sector’s gendered impacts, and it summarizes Oxfam’s recommendations to mining, oil, and gas companies, to governments, and to international financial institutions for achieving better gender equality outcomes and advancing women’s rights. Tackling gender inequality within the extractive industries demands a fundamental shift in how the industry is conceptualized, organized, and governed. It requires a reshaping of the values, culture, and norms that produce and maintain gender bias within the sector. Given the positive correlation between the progressive realization of women’s rights and poverty alleviation, the imperative for a new paradigm is clear.