How International Women’s Day became a Soviet celebration of “eternal femininity”
In August 1910, to draw attention to the issue of equal rights for women, Clara Zetkin came up…
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Women’s Day in Ukraine is seriously in limbo
International Women's Day, is undergoing an identity crisis in Ukraine. 8 March 2018 is the last time it…
Ukraine’s Health Ministry opens up previously banned 450 professions for women
The Ukrainian Health Ministry has abolished its order #256 banning women from being employed in 450 professions which…
How I left everything and went to Donbas to make the film “War mothers”
In 2016, I was working a comfortable career in advertising in Melbourne, Australia. Things were not out of…
Technovation, global IT entrepreneurship contest among schoolgirls, launched in Ukraine
Ukraine is now part of the international initiative Technovation, a contest in IT entrepreneurship for girls. Schoolgirls aged…
Ukrainian women receive right to serve in combat positions
The struggles of Ukrainian women who fight at the front lines in Donbas have been heard. Revolutionary amendments…
Meet Ukraine’s “Invisible battalion” of women
Brave beauty. Twelve fearless women are depicted on a Ukrainian calendar for 2016. However, they represent a much larger…
Paratrooper’s widow deploys to front with his unit
Maryna Knysh has gone to war. Following in her late husband Oleksandr’s footsteps, the 27-year-old single mother deployed…
Maria Lewytzkyj: Putin’s percolating misogyny oppresses Russian and Ukrainian women
Putin oppresses women in Russia and Ukraine: Prime time Russian NTV's show “The Furies of Maidan: Sex, Psychosis…