In pics: Women who are breaking down the barriers of gender-bias
In the ring, battling flames or lifting off into space, women have entered professions generally considered as men's jobs.
- DNA Web Team
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- Mar 08, 2018, 12:52 PM IST
In the ring, battling flames or lifting off into space, women have entered professions generally considered as men's jobs.
1. Israeli army sergeant Amit Malekin
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Israeli army sergeant Amit Malekin, 19, commander of a mobile rocket launcher, poses for a picture in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border between Israel and Syria on February 26, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ
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Ana Cristina, 44, tram driver for 20 years, poses for a portrait inside a tram in Lisbon on February 28, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA
3. French chef Anne-Sophie Pic
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French chef Anne-Sophie Pic, the only female three-starred Michelin chef in France and one of a handful in the world, poses on March 2, 2018 in the kitchen of her restaurant "La maison Pic" in Valence, southeastern France.
AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES
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Anny Divya, 31, an Indian pilot who became the youngest woman in the world to captain the Boeing 777 aircraft, poses next to portraits of various air marshals at the Indian Air Force Museum in New Delhi on February 24, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNA
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Asmaa Megahed a 31-year-old Egyptian carpenter poses for a picture at her workshop in Abdeen district in downtown Cairo on February 26, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
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Carmen Cousello, 58, who was in 1998 Uruguays first female bus driver, poses for a picture in Montevideo on February 28, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / Pablo PORCIUNCULA BRUNE
7. Canal Locks operator Eyda Rios
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Canal Locks operator Eyda Rios, 55, poses for pictures at the Panama Canals Pedro Miguel Locks, on the outskirts of Panama City on February 26, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / Rodrigo ARANGUA
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Hannah Beachler, production designer, poses for a picture in West Hollywood, California, on February 22, 2018. Hannah Beachler has designed Wakanda, the "Black Panther" fictional African home and world. Hannah is the only black woman at the top of her field.
AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON
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Houssa Nientao, 64, one of the few female marabouts in Bamako, poses in a room at her in Bamako on February 20, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / Michele CATTANI
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Jodie Azhar, 30, Lead Technical Artist on the Total War game series at Creative Assembly, poses for a portrait in her offices in Horsham, West Sussex, south of London, on February 23, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS
11. Maria Jose Martienz Ortiz
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Maria Jose Martienz Ortiz, 43, Spanish firefighter poses for a picture in the Fuente San Luis fire station facilities in Valencia on February 28, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / JOSE JORDAN
12. Somali football coach and player Marwa Mauled Abdi
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Somali football coach and player Marwa Mauled Abdi, 24, poses 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.
AFP PHOTO / Mustafa Saeed
13. South Sudanese cattle herder Mary Amer
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South Sudanese cattle herder Mary Amer, 22, poses with her child in a camp in Mingkaman, South Sudan, on March 3, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / Stefanie GLINSKI
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This photo taken on February 23, 2018 shows New South Wales state emergency services (SES) volunteer Michelle Whye posing in uniform in front of an emergency vehicle at their headquarters in Sydney.
AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS
15. Pakistani first responder Samra Akram Zia
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Pakistani first responder Samra Akram Zia poses for a photograph with her motorcycle ambulance service during a passing out ceremony in Lahore on February 24, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI
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Tabasumm, 30, an auto-rickshaw driver, poses with her vehicle in Allahabad on February 22, 2018.
AFP PHOTO / SANJAY KANOJIA
