1/41Lebanese mechanic Rana el-Hayek, 22, in a car repair garage where she works in Qannabat Brummana, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon on March 3, 2018. Picture: AFP
Breaking down barriers on International Women’s Day
IN the boxing ring, battling flames or lifting off into space, women have entered professions generally considered as men’s jobs. For International Women’s Day, we meet women breaking down the barriers of gender bias in the work world.
2/41Arazo Qadri, a 27-year-old female member of the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, stands guard at the Peshmerga Military camp in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. Picture: AFP
3/41Houssa Nientao, 64, one of the few female marabouts in Bamako. Picture: AFP
4/41Spanish journalist, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, 42, deputy director spokeswoman at the Holy See Press Office, the first women to ever hold the this position, at St Peter’s square on February 28, 2018 in Vatican City. Picture: AFP
5/41Huda Salem, a 20-year-old member of the Iraqi national weightlifting team, lifts weights as she trains at a gym in Baghdad on February 22, 2018. Picture: AFP
6/41Ana Cristina, 44, tram driver for 20 years, inside a tram in Lisbon on February 28, 2018. Picture: AFP
7/41Victoria Da-Poian, 22, student at the French Superior Institute of aeronautics and Space, on February 10 2018. Picture: AFP
8/41Ana Sousa, 45, TAP Air Portugal pilot for 11 years, at a TAP hangar in Lisbon. Picture: AFP
9/41Nicol Gomez, 37, guardian at the La Esperanza prison, in front a group of prisoners practicing yoga in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 4, 2018. Picture: AFP
10/41Asmaa Megahed, a 31-year-old Egyptian carpenter at her workshop in Abdeen district in downtown Cairo on February 26, 2018. Picture: AFP
11/41South Sudanese cattle herder Mary Amer, 22, with her child in a camp in Mingkaman, South Sudan, on March 3, 2018. Picture: AFP
12/41First Albino female prisons officer Nomatter Mashaire, 32, at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) headquarters on 22 February 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Picture: AFP
13/41Tabasumm, 30, an auto-rickshaw driver, with her vehicle in Allahabad, India. Picture: AFP
14/41Mai Ibrahim Al-Mesad, Project Manager of the maritime section of the Jaber Al-Ahmad Causeway, at the construction site in Kuwait City on March 4, 2018. Picture: AFP
15/41Carmen Cousello, 58, who was in 1998 Uruguay’s first female bus driver, in Montevideo on February 28, 2018. Picture: AFP
16/41Pakistani first responder Samra Akram Zia with her motorcycle ambulance service during a passing out ceremony in Lahore. Picture: AFP
17/41Spanish firefighter Maria Jose Martienz Ortiz, 43, in the ‘Fuente San Luis’ fire station facilities in Valencia on February 28, 2018. Picture: AFP
18/41French chef Anne-Sophie Pic, the only female three-starred Michelin chef in France and one of a handful in the world, in the kitchen of her restaurant “La maison Pic” in Valence, southeastern France. Picture: AFP
19/41Heather Marold Thomason, butcher and founder of Primal Supply Meats, in her company’s dry-aging room on March 2, 2018, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA. Picture: AFP
20/41Israeli army sergeant Amit Malekin, 19, commander of a mobile rocket launcher, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border between Israel and Syria on February 26, 2018. Picture: AFP
21/41Razia Banu, 20, a Pakistani female national boxing champion, before a practice session at a boxing club in Lyari, Karachi’s most restive - and sporty - neighbourhood, on February 20, 2018. Picture: AFP
22/41Somali football coach and player Marwa Mauled Abdi, 24, at the football ground of Ubah fitness center, the first football field exclusively opened for women, in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, northwestern Somalia, on March 1, 2018. Picture: AFP
23/41Amaia Gorostiza, 51, businesswoman and president of the SD Eibar football club, in the locker room at the Ipurua stadium in Eibar, Spain on February 27, 2018. Picture: AFP
24/41Sarah Achieng, a 31 year-old professional boxer and sports administrator, after her training session at Kariobangi social hall gym in Nairobi, Kenya on February 27, 2018. Picture: AFP
25/41Zahida, a Pakistani female police Assistance Sub-Inspector (ASI), at a police academy in Peshawar on February 26, 2018. Picture: AFP
26/41Shana Power, 25, a mixed martial artist (MMA), in the gym which she co-owns called Power House Intensive Training (PHIT), in Johannesburg, South Africa. Picture: AFP
27/41Argentine referee Estela Alvarez de Olivera, 40, at the Boca Juniors football team stadium “La Bombonera”, in Buenos Aires. Picture: AFP
28/4128-year-old Australian sheep shearer Emma Billet surrounded by sheep on a station outside the town of Trangie in western New South Wales. Picture: AFP
29/41New South Wales state emergency services (SES) volunteer Michelle Whye in front of an emergency vehicle at their headquarters in Sydney. Picture: AFP
30/41Elizabeth Spehar, United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), after a Peace Medals handing ceremony at the old Nicosia airport in the UN Buffer Zone on February 22, 2018. Picture: AFP
31/41French rejoneadora (mounted bullfighter who uses a lance) Lea Vincens, 33, at the Aracena bullring, in Huelva, southern Spain. Picture: AFP
32/41Jodie Azhar, 30, Lead Technical Artist on the Total War game series at Creative Assembly, in her offices in Horsham, West Sussex, south of London, UK on February 23, 2018. Picture: AFP
33/41Hannah Beachler, production designer, in West Hollywood, California, on February 22, 2018. Hannah Beachler has designed Wakanda, the “Black Panther” fictional African home and world. Picture: AFP
34/41Bhramaramba Maheshwari P., 59, an Indian Sanskrit scholar and Hindu priestess, at a wedding hall in Bangalore, India on February 21, 2018. Picture: AFP
35/41Master tailor Kathryn Sargent in her shop in central London on February 23, 2018. Picture: AFP
36/41Anny Divya, 31, an Indian pilot who became the youngest woman in the world to captain the Boeing 777 aircraft, next to portraits of various air marshals at the Indian Air Force Museum in New Delhi on February 24, 2018. Picture: AFP
37/41Kuldeep KaurIndian, 51, an Indian watchwoman, walks with a flashlight during her night round at Bhangiwal village near Mehatpur, some 40km south from Jalandhar on February 24, 2018. Picture: AFP
38/41Locomotive, or “mule” operator Glaciela Shreeves, 53, at the Panama Canal’s Pedro Miguel Locks, where she works towing ships through the locks, on the outskirts of Panama City on February 22, 2018. Picture: AFP
39/41Rajpati Devi, 45, a bike mechanic and puncture repairer, at her roadside workshop in Allahabad, India on February 24, 2018. Picture: AFP
40/41Ran Namise, 24, a firefighter belonging to the command squad, in front of a fire engine at Kojimachi Fire Station in Tokyo. Picture: AFP
41/41Professional wrestler Cristal in her trainig place in Mexico City on February 09, 2018. Picture: AFP
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