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.

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, ...

Who clocks in at work when over 880,000 people leave their jobs to join the Ukrainian armed forces? The answer is women. Over the past two years, women have filled the gaps in the civilian workforce ...

After nearly three years of Russia's war on Ukraine, trauma and grief run deep, especially in the suburbs of Kyiv, where Russian troops massacred civilians in the city of Bucha. A group of women ...

As Russia's army advances on coal mines powering Ukraine and its steel industry, women in a small coal town adjust to new roles as miners. They've replaced men who're now fighting on the frontlines.

So DTEK and other mining companies advertised that the jobs were now open to women. Now hundreds of Ukrainian women work underground at coal mines, part of a wartime drive to keep Ukraine operating.