Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Justice and Peace Commission of the Lesotho Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CCL) held a meeting on Friday with the aim of formulating a strategy that will be used to motivate and empower women in the country, and to know that they can participate in mining and mining activities.
Ms. ‘Mamokhanyo Nkune from the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference stated that they are aware that in the field of education in the country there is a great deal of inequality when it comes to the advancement of women.
He went on to explain that it is still important for schools from the time a child starts lambing to have guidance on the field that a child can enjoy in the future when he or she goes to high school.
He said girls should be disciplined from an early age and know that they have the ability to study courses that will allow them to open doors and enter the mines.
“We realize that women are happy to choose simple subjects but we want to inspire them to know that they can do the same,” said Nkune.
She pointed out that the challenge facing women is that they live in a stressful generation and have a sense of inadequacy. Nkune said they were also aware that women were also facing challenges in their male-dominated activities.
He said the aim was to educate the ‘mining’ and foreign-based businesses on the right channels of employment and operations, and to protect women within the ‘mining’ industry.
A spokeswoman for the Independent Democratic Union of Lesotho, Ms Marorisang Letsa, said the organization had learned that the recruitment process within the Lesotho mines was not targeted at the people and almost compromised.
they are easily hired. He said there was also discrimination and wage disputes in that women would be doing the same work as men but wages would be different.
“These are some of the things that we are trying to fight as an organization for women to be treated fairly in terms of their income,” she said.
Letsa also emphasized that one of the challenges women face when they are employed in the mines is that some employment laws almost include pressure on women, for example, if a woman is expected to cut her hair because the employer he said he could hide the diamond in it.
Women and Children’s Coordinator Ms Mantsalla Ramakhula from the Lesotho Council of Non-Governmental Organization (LCN) said women felt that even if they were going to study science, they could just do it to teach children.
school but not to work related activities. Ramakhula said they also realized that jobs that required science education required the use of nerves, they could not imagine that they could require more mental and physical use than strength.
“Because of our culture, we have grown to think that there are jobs for women and men only and this is what closes the chances that even if we are educated, then we do not think we can go How do I get into mining, ”he said. He explained that within the mines in Lesotho, the number of men was higher than that of women and that should be eliminated.
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