From the MT:
“Russia Opens Aviation
Technician, Engineer Professions to Women”
Russian women will be able to get
jobs servicing aircraft for the first time in decades starting next year,
according to a Labor Ministry order published Tuesday. The Soviet Union first
introduced the list of banned jobs in the 1970s to protect women’s safety and
reproductive health. The list persisted into modern-day Russia despite
technological improvements automating many of the physically demanding aspects
of these jobs.
The latest Labor Ministry order,
which takes effect on March 1, 2022, removes restrictions preventing women from
becoming aviation maintenance technicians or engineers who repair planes and
helicopters. It comes months after
Russia slashed its number of banned occupations for women from 476 to 100,
allowing women to work as metro and electric train drivers, boatswains and
sailors, drivers of heavy trucks and more. Inna Svyatenko, the head of the Federation
Council’s committee on social policy, had urged the ministry to expand the list
of jobs available to women even further, she told the state-run TASS news
agency. She said she believes that it’s unfair to forbid a woman to get a job
in her specialization.
^ This is long over-due. ^
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