War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

like coal mining. Before the war, no women worked underground in mines. Now there are hundreds of female miners, including at a coal mine not far from the front line. NPR Joanna Kakissis has our ...

Now hundreds of Ukrainian women work underground at coal mines, part of a wartime drive to keep Ukraine operating. DTEK says women now make up roughly 5% of its workforce. The U.S. launched a ...

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have... In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women ...