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 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 ...

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.