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In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women are now working in coal mines

todayJanuary 7, 2025 314 69 4

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Tetiana Medvedenko (left) and Iryna Ostanko (right), both underground machine operators, walk to the elevators that will take them below the surface into a DTEK coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine.

War has changed Ukraine’s workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

(Image credit: Michael Robinson Chávez for NPR)

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