With their roles in the frontlines and home front, the war has made women more visible. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE - The road to the training site was lined with crumbling homes and damaged buildings, a reminder of how war had consumed the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv just months ago.
Hanna, who asked that her surname not be used because of fears for her safety, is among a growing number of Ukrainian women who have been trained in demining, which until just a few years ago was on a list of hundreds of jobs women in the country were barred from holding. That shift has been underway for some time, Prof Kvit said, with women increasingly taking on new roles after the 2014 conflict in eastern Ukraine, accelerating changes in the defence and security sectors that filtered out broadly across society.Women had been barred from combat roles, but they were still taking part in the fighting, although without the same status, benefits or recognition as men.
In addition to demining roles, that list had included long-haul trucking, welding, firefighting and many security and defence jobs. During a brief stop at a cafe in Lviv, in western Ukraine, she described a two-day round-trip journey into Poland from her home in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to pick up a truck and then return to Ukraine.Yevgheniia Ustinova is part of one of the countless groups that drive these transport cars to Ukraine. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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