TERNIVKA, Ukraine — It's still dark when the busload of miners arrives for the morning shift at this small city in eastern Ukraine's coal country. Among the workers is 36-year-old Iryna Ostanko ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern ... Credit: Coal Age Magazine Women in the early 1900s were barred from working underground in the coalmines, but their work above ground was integral ...

Updating policies and regulations is another way to enhance women’s careers. In China, Article 59 of the Labour Law prohibits female workers from engaging in underground mining, limiting their ...

Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three-kilometre-deep Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg ...

Before the war, no women worked underground in mines ... KAKISSIS: She says, "we reached a critical point where fewer workers at the mine would have meant that production would drop." ...

Hundreds of workers remain underground at the Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg after a "shaft incident" occurred at Sibanye ...

On March 8, International Working Women’s Day ... Now the company has announced the shutdown of underground mining, which ...

In Zimbabwe they say, Hanzi bhande rinonzvenga vakadzi vakapinda mumigoghi (The gold belt will disappear if women go into the underground mine ... been vendors, sex workers, and alluvial gold ...

Some 1,000 male workers at the mine have been drafted ... the Ukrainian government suspended a law that had barred women from working underground and in “harmful or dangerous” conditions.