Russia marches bravely into 20th century, allows women to drive trains
Until January, women weren’t allowed to do ‘hazardous’ jobs. Now the list from which they were barred has been cut
21 January 2021 - 20:29
Muscovite Sofia Dorofeyeva had always been drawn to the trains travelling across the vast expanses of her native Russia, but until this year she and her female compatriots had been barred from occupying the driver’s seat...
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