Women in Mining Network in
The Women in Mining Network of
Toronto is a lively, informal and relatively unstructured group of more than
200 women who work across the spectrum of the mining industry. They meet monthly from September to June, usually
over lunch, sometimes with a speaker, sometimes just to chat on a selected
topic.
WIM can trace its origins to the
late 1960s when females in the industry were such a rarity that the handful of
women geologists active then were deemed worthy of an article in The Northern
Miner. The editor must have liked the
article, for he told the reporter who penned it (also a geologist) to take her
interviewees out for lunch. The four who
sat
down on that occasion enjoyed
themselves so much, they decided to lunch again. And they did, every now and then, and those
in attendance grew in number, eventually organizing themselves to the extent of
having a mailing list and regular gatherings.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Sadly, two of the four who sat down for that original lunch have since succumbed to cancer, so it is particularly appropriate that WIM's first collective fund-raising effort is the Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk.
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