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 By Anastasia Adasheva

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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