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

We really wanted to help and to replace those men who went to fight and to protect Ukraine,” Nadiya Moskalenko told NBC News.

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 ...

From driving tractors to working in coal mines, Ukrainian women are taking jobs once reserved for men, who are being drafted to the front lines in the war with Russia. Women have also signed up to ...

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 ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

WOMEN WAR WORKERS AT THE RELIANCE ... barred women from working underground in coal mines until 1979, women were employed only above ground in Union Pacific mining occupations during World War ...

Before the war started, the government barred women from doing jobs underground because ... operates the cable cars that move workers and supplies across the mine’s vast 75-mile tunnel network.