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 ...

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." ...

Today more than one in six of its workers are women, up from one in 10 15 years ... where trainees complete a certificate II in underground coal mining across two years. At BHP, female ...

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

Nearly a third of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater SSWJ.J gold mine in South Africa ... Sibanye earlier said all the workers were safe after what ...

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.

All 260 employees have been accounted for and have been provided with food. LONDON -- Hundreds of workers remain underground at the Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg after a "shaft incident ...