- Women are consistently paid less than men for the same sack of cobalt.
- None of the miners in Kipushi has ever even seen a smartphone.
- Siddharth Kara says people need to pay more attention to the conditions of the workers who mine cobalt.
- He investigates their plight in his book, “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” (St.
- Martin’s Press, January).
