This paper investigates the internal migration dynamics involving women from the Northern
part of Ghana to the South to engage in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)–low-tech …

The global mining industry is male dominated. In the US, women constitute 13% of the
mining workforce and 16% of mining related college programs. Similar trends exist globally …

Recent interest by governmental, non-governmental and civil society organisations in
monitoring, tracing, tracking and flushing out illegal mining activities in Ghana has …

This feminist research explores how superstition is used by in‐law's family to subordinate
women business‐owners in a highly patriarchal developing context. Whereas the …

My alarm rings, it is 3h30 in the morning. I've hardly slept and I'm as tired as I was when I
went to bed last night. I get very anxious at night; I worry about being late and missing the …

This paper examines the shifting ritual practices and perspectives of women in artisanal gold
mining (AGM) in Mazowe, a rural district in Mashonaland central province Zimbabwe …

This study assesses the implication of traditional beliefs and practices of local miners on
land degradation. The effect of artisanal and small-scale mining on land degradation is …

This article is a critical examination of socio-cultural factors and dynamics and the extent to
which they inflect gender roles in small-scale gold mining (SSGM) in north-eastern Ghana …

Forest restoration has become a worldwide phenomenon to minimise the effects of climate
change and global warming. However, in most cases, especially in Africa, communities …

Calls for more female participation in politics have featured strongly in developed and
developing countries since 1975 when the UN made women's issues a priority. Ghanaian …