October 2006, The World Bank
Gender Bias in Extractive Industries Improving the Impact of Oil, Gas and Mining (OGM) Projects on Women Many oil, gas and OGM companies are actively involved in working with communities to obtain or improve their social license to operate .This is especially true in Peru where the relationship between companies and communities has not always gone well in recent years.The traditional approach to engaging with communities has typically been to engage with community leaders who, while they may be freely elected or selected by the community, are invariably men so that women have little role in discussions or negotiations.However, women in the community are often some of the most outspoken critics of OGM projects in Latin America in general and Peru, in particular.There is a growing body of evidence which can shed some light on this situation.
