What does this mean and why is this should be one of the pillars of any women in mining group?
According to Cambridge dictionary, sisterhood means „a feeling of shared interests and support among women“
This term was first used for groups of women that gathered together to fight for woman’s rights. It is used nowadays as a concept of promoting self-development, supporting professional success and healthy relationships among women, specially in sectors were women are a minority, as in mining. Indeed, it is one of the pillars of this women in mining chapter.
As stated by different researches, women in man-driven work places tend to compete, compare, undermine and undercut one another as a behavior called female competitiveness. If you are a woman in mining, maybe you have felt like that by your peers or maybe you have made your peers feel like that. It does not matter if this has happened consciously or unconsciously but now we are living a period of change and self-reflection that has made us realize that there should not be room for such actions among each other.
It should be, and it is our goal to support, encourage and protect each other, between this women in mining group, while working in a mine, along our university time and in our every day life.
WIM Germany 