Gender-Sensitive Approaches for the Extractive Industry in Peru:
Improving the Impact on Women in Poverty and Their Families

This report conclude that women’s decision-making abilities are highly context specific, and when understood within the constantly changing legal
environment, they present both challenges and opportunities to companies to strengthen women’s ability to foster sustainable development within their communities. However, the baseline is clear:

in the vast majority of communities, women in Peru are denied their rights to engage

equally to men in decision-making processes.