(1 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nemishaieve, Kyiv region, Ukraine – 27 December 2024
1. Various of 19-year-old student Kateryna Koliadiuk learning how to operate construction equipment
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Kateryna Koliadiuk, 19, student:
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"We were told that women should be in the kitchen, at home with children. That is why to go and study such equipment was so scary, (I was afraid) that I wouldn’t even be able to drive it. But we got over ourselves, little by little we were moving towards our goal. Now, as we were taught, I can already ride almost any vehicle that we have here at the training ground. At first it was scary, but now we understand that it is necessary, since men are now being mobilized, and someone needs to rebuild the country. I really like this area, I realized that this is exactly mine. When I get into the equipment, I get such adrenaline, it is impossible to simply convey it in words."
3. Various of Koliadiuk driving the equipment
4. Close of excavator digging dirt
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yulia Skitchko, head of a construction machinery rental service Alef Stroy:
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"We have many mothers with many children. I think this is also a synergy, because the girls understand that we will be involved in the reconstruction for ourselves, but first of all for the future of our children. We were told that ‘we are crazy people, this is not possible. Women? Excavator? They will never do this, they are incapable.’ These days, our first women who graduated from this course already have jobs and started working on building construction sites.”
6. Close of Skitchko’s shoes in the mud
7. Various Yulia Skitchko watching new female trainees operate excavators
8. Various of a student operating excavators
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine – 16 January 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukrainian Economy Minister:
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"If we look at the numbers, we have 51% of employed women, 49% of men, respectively. I can’t say that the situation has changed significantly during the full-scale war, but we see that the approach is changing. Employers are increasingly willing to hire women in specialties that have always been dominated by male professions, and women, in turn, are ready to study and retrain in order to gain new knowledge, new skills and be employed."
10. Wide of Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko speaking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dnipropetrovsk region – 30 January 2025
11. Various of women preparing for duty in a coal mine of DTEK company
12. Various of coal mine equipment, women working
STORYLINE:
Kateryna Koliadiuk was curious.
The 19-year old Ukrainian agronomy student spotted an ad seeking women to enroll in a tractor driving course and decided to try.
But when she first beheld the industrial vehicle up close, she wasn’t sure she could operate it; It was huge, with many controls and attachments.
"We were told that women should be in the kitchen, at home with children," said Koliadiuk. "That is why to go and study such equipment was so scary, (I was afraid) that I wouldn’t even be able to drive it."
"Now, as we were taught, I can already ride almost any vehicle that we have here at the training ground,” she said, with claw-like manicured fingers resting at the wheel. She now drives with authority.
This is according to the country’s Economy Ministry, which is spearheading training programs in construction, agriculture and transport that are geared toward women.
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