SPECIFIC WORK WOMEN PERFORM AT THE MINES
Case
Summary Multiple Response  
| 
  Cases | ||||||
| 
Valid  | 
Missing  | 
Total | ||||
| 
N | 
Percent
   | 
N
   | 
Percent
   | 
Percent
   | 
N | 
Percent
   | 
| 
&Q9 | 
1254 | 
99.9% | 
1 | 
.1% | 
1255 | 
100.0% | 
Dichotomy
group tabulated at value 1
Table 6b. 
Responses
on specific work women perform at the mines (multiple responses).
| 
Jobs
  women mostly do  | 
Responses    | 
Percentage
  of cases  | |
| 
N | 
Percentage
   | ||
| 
(a)
  Digging  | 
357 | 
7.7% | 
28.5% | 
| 
(b)
  Blasting  | 
325 | 
7.0% | 
25.9% | 
| 
(c)
  Clearing  | 
807 | 
17.5% | 
64.4% | 
| 
(d)
  Loading  | 
1206 | 
26.1% | 
96.2% | 
| 
(e)
  Breaking | 
797 | 
17.3% | 
63.6% | 
| 
(f)
  Packaging  | 
1124 | 
24.4% | 
89.6% | 
| 
Total
   | 
4616 | 
100.0% | 
338.1% | 
Field
survey   2011.
Question
number 9, sought to know the specific work these women perform at these quarry
mines so as to know the suitability of the job for them as mining, especially
quarry mining was problematically identified for women. 
The
expected response was based on a multiple response approach as there were many
options to identify the ones women participate in. From the table created, the
summary show that in all the quarry mine work activities women participate more
in loading with a raw number of one thousand two hundred and six representing
26.1% of the 100%, representing a case percentage of 96.2%. The loading work is
followed by packaging with a response number of 1124 representing 24.4% showing
the second highest job women perform at the quarry mines of Ebonyi State, with
a percentage case of 89.6 percent.
Responses
on whether respondents know why women are involved in any particular job (e.g
clearing, loading, packaging etc.)  at
the quarry mines. 
Table 7.
| 
Responses on why women are in particular
  job  | 
Ebonyi   North | 
Ebonyi Central | 
Ebonyi South | 
Total  | |||
| 
Male | 
Female | 
Male | 
Female  | 
Male | 
Female | ||
| 
Yes | 
6(6.3) | 
49(51.6) | 
0(.0) | 
15(15.8) | 
2(2.1) | 
23(24.2) | 
95(100) | 
| 
No | 
145(12.7) | 
315(27.6) | 
132(11.6) | 
232(20.3) | 
96(8.4) | 
221(19.4) | 
1141(100) | 
| 
No response | 
2(11.1) | 
0(.0) | 
0(.0) | 
1(5.6) | 
1(5.6) | 
15(83.3) | 
19(100) | 
| 
Total  | 
153(12.2) | 
364(29) | 
132(10.5) | 
248(198) | 
99(7.9) | 
259(20.6) | 
1255(100) | 
Field
survey   2011.
The
table specific analysis on sex show the responses on how the two groups
responded. On the knowledge on why women engage in a particular job  at the quarry mines, men on the ‘no’, column
had 373 or 32.7 percent , while women had 768 or 67.3 percent based on sex that
responded, indicating that females were higher in number . Even on the ‘yes’
column women were, 91.6 percent against 8.4 percent for men. 
Summary of respondents knowledge on if
they know the reasons why women are in a particular job activity.
