This webinar represents a powerful testimony of individual and organizational transformation. Marleny Gil and Lorena Saavedra not only shared their stories of personal overcoming in the face of structural, cultural and social barriers, but they articulated a clear vision of how the mining industry can and should evolve.
The conflation of selfhood with professional identity and self-worth with productivity and ambition is, of course, why stay-at-home motherhood is regarded as such a lowly vocation. At home, there’s no remuneration for services rendered or ladder to climb, nor is there much external validation. To be a stay-at-home mother is, therefore, to step outside of the productivity paradigm entirely, “to [fall] off the edge of the working world,” in the words of Mary Harrington.
Measuring gender gaps is challenging. For one thing, distributions overlap even when there is a gap at the average. In the U.S., median female earnings are 18 percentage points lower than male earnings, but 40% of women earn more than the median man. Women live five years longer than men on average, but 36% of men live longer than the median woman. Analyzing gender gaps across different subgroups also complicates the picture: white women now earn considerably more than Black men, for example (at the average, of course).
The conflict between work and family in our day is a problem in need of a fix. Though we debate various public policy solutions that might ease the tension, generally, we leave each parent to resolve the disharmony on his or her own. The result is a good deal of day-to-day stress.
While there has been post-pandemic progress in areas such as education (albeit a gender attainment gap still persists), recent figures on employment, suicide and crime have not “recovered.” These have been featured in the CPRMB report (Missing Men Business Scorecard).The national level messaging and narrative (including the political message) has changed since Netflix’s Adolescence due to evidence-based research from the Centre for Social Justice’s Lost Boys Report, The narrative has changed from “The problems (young men) and boys cause” to” The problems (young) men and boys have – and now we do something to help them.”
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