"We went underground to do men's work": Ukrainian women work in mines for the first time / hromadske

"I never thought that I would work in a mine with a panic fear of elevators. But the war changed everything. And we went to work, because we need something to eat," says 36-year-old Victoria Avramchuk at the ground zero of the mine. Two years ago, she did not have the right to work underground in a mine. Now he drives an underground electric locomotive and delivers materials.
Viktoria is one of the 150 women who work at two mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region where hromadske visited. Women got this right recently. Until 2022, the law prohibited women from working in hard work underground. However, during martial law, lawmakers lifted this ban. All because thousands of miners joined the Defense Forces - and the mines faced the problem of a shortage of personnel.
As soon as women got the right to work underground, coal miners developed programs to attract them to their enterprises to fill some of the vacant places - women are not offered to work directly in the pit, but mainly in places that require not so much strength as attention and responsibility.
About why women become miners and go down to difficult work underground - in the hromadske report.
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