Ukraine's coal mines turn to women to deal with wartime staff shortages, for the first time in history

After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia’s invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. Its answer was to allow women to work underground for the first time in its history. Over a hundred took up the offer. “I took this job because the…

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