“I would never have thought that I would work in a mine”: due to mass mobilization in Ukraine, women began to be recruited into coal mines — The New York Times
Former nannies and saleswomen go to work there, for them it is a chance for a stable income, and for enterprises it is an opportunity to cope with the labor shortage, the publication reports.
Women also operate conveyors that lift coal to the surface, work as safety inspectors, drive trains, and work as crane operators.
Some of them admit that they faced skepticism from their male colleagues, but they, according to them, are gradually “overcoming gender stereotypes.”
