As a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in corporate law and as general counsel for an investment firm, Lisa Davis was used to working with more men than women. But it wasn’t until five years ago when she joined PearTree Securities – a company that works mostly with junior miners – that she really saw how imbalanced the sector was in terms of gender.
“It was always noticeable that I wasn’t in the majority in the room in terms of the gender division, but I really saw that magnified once I started working more within the mining industry,” says Davis, who is PearTree’s CEO. “You do see much more of a sort of old boy’s network.”
PearTree, which facilitates charitable giving through flow-through share donation arrangements, works mostly with mineral exploration and development companies.
Along with Ernst & Young, PearTree is also one of the founding sponsors of a new initiative by the International Women in Mining Community to help get more women into influential positions in the industry – on the boards of mining companies.
Read the complete article at NorthernMiner.com/news/shining-a-spotlight-on-women
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