{"id":232440,"date":"2025-03-10T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=232440"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:59:09","slug":"international-womans-day-story-marisol-mackenzie-proves-women-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/international-womans-day-story-marisol-mackenzie-proves-women-can\/","title":{"rendered":"International Woman&#8217;s Day story: Marisol MacKenzie proves women can"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232513\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marisol-Mackenzie-Barrick-A-Metro-y-Medio-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Marisol Mackenzie \/ A Metro y Medio \/ Ana Mercy Ota\u00f1ez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman who worked with a contractor cleaning the facilities of Barrick Gold in Sanchez Ramirez province is today a heavy-duty equipment driver. A native of Cotui, she is the 15th of 17 brothers and sisters. She was a single mother who needed a better job and took the challenge to get trained. She found openings in Barrick to advance, and encouragement from fellow male equipment drivers. Today, she is the only woman certified to Hitachi 3,600 excavator used in mining operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marisol MacKenzie told her story for the Ana Mercy Otanez podcast on the occasion of International Woman\u2019s Day on 8 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ib2xek5J0RQ\">Ana Mercy Otanez <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/una-mujer-que-ha-roto-barreras-marisol-mackenzie-un-referente-femenino-en-el-transporte-minero\/\">El Nuevo Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 March 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who worked with a contractor cleaning the facilities of Barrick Gold in Sanchez Ramirez province is today a heavy-duty equipment driver. A native of Cotui, she is the 15th of 17 brothers and sisters. She was a single mother who needed a better job and took the challenge to get trained. She found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/international-womans-day-story-marisol-mackenzie-proves-women-can\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232532,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232440\/revisions\/232532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}