Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Why women are hanging up their hardhats
Diversity & Inclusion | Jobs
September 23, 2021 – Women across tenures report having few opportunities for advancement in the mining industry and lack of intellectual challenge, causing many to leave the industry entirely. Results of our recent global study also showed that sponsorship programs for women in the field are insufficient.
To read the article, see “Why women are leaving the mining industry and what mining companies can do about it,” September 13, 2021.
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Visual form
Three-row stacked horizontal bar chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart uses three horizontal bars for the 0 to 5 years, 6 to 10 years, and more than 10 years experience groups. Reader scans each row left to right across the reason categories and then compares how the segment mix changes across experience levels.
What is being compared
The chart compares the top reasons women leave the mining industry across three experience groups. It contrasts work-interest, growth, skill mismatch, remuneration, sponsorship, belonging, bias, and residual other reasons within each tenure band.
Measurement system
The measurement is percent of respondents, and each experience row is split into labeled percentage segments. Color differentiates the reason categories, with the legend across the top identifying each reason bucket.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each bar is segmented into multiple colored blocks with the percentage printed directly inside most sections. The leftmost dark block begins with work not interesting, then the blue growth-related blocks follow, and smaller purple and gray sections close the rows at the right edge.
Main takeaway from the visual
Across all three experience groups, lack of interesting work and lack of growth opportunities dominate the reasons for leaving, while bias and miscellaneous reasons remain smaller slices. The pattern is consistent enough that the chart reads as a structural retention problem rather than a narrow tenure-specific issue.
Key standout values or extremes
For women with 0 to 5 years of experience, work not interesting and no growth both register 19 percent. For 6 to 10 years, those two reasons are 20 and 19 percent, and for more than 10 years they rise to 22 and 21 percent, making them the largest blocks on the chart. Bias stays comparatively small at 6, 6, and 4 percent across the three rows.
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