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05 April 2011

CHILE: Against All Odds And Superstitions, Woman Is Copper Mine Boss.

AFP/ P. Abramovich / Profile
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  Isabel Galleguillos, 50, is the first woman boss of an open-pit mine in Chile.
   But she works alongside her daughter-in-law and five men.
   In doing so, she has bucked a traditional belief that women bring bad luck down in the mines because, purportedly, their fertility conflicts with the fertility of the veins of minerals.
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