There is another big problem in Ukraine that many people have not noticed. That is, what should women in Ukraine do in the future? The war swept away all the men, leaving only women and children in the house. Finding a reliable man was even more difficult than climbing to the sky. There were almost no young men on the street. Women became the backbone of the family and worked hard to hold on.
What was originally done by men in factories, farmland and battlefields now almost all falls to Ukrainian women.
In military factories, the workshop must be 24 hours a day, but all the workers who take turns to work are female workers. In the farmland, it is also women who drive tractors to cultivate, fertilize and harvest.
In underground air-raid shelters, many people earn money to support their families during the day and take care of the elderly and children at night. They take on almost all the roles they can take on.
The number of women in the Ukrainian army is also increasing, with data showing that there are approximately 6,7 thousand female soldiers, more than two-tenths of the total army, of which tens of thousands have been sent to the front to fight on the ground.
More brutally, thousands of women were expecting to enter the battlefield in harsh conditions, not out of ideals to join the army, but under real persecution.
Donbass’s “Night Shark Drone Squadron” is a striking example of Captain Daria being just a college student studying artificial intelligence before the war.
But when a large number of men are absent, she becomes an indispensable technical backbone to lead the squad on the battlefield, they are not born warriors, but because there is no substitute, they can only harden the scalp to do.
The battlefield is only one side. In the rear, women are under equally heavy pressure. Statistics show that about 300,000 men died due to the war in Ukraine, which means that at least 250,000 widows are left behind.
Most of them are between their twenties and thirties and forties, and many of them have to raise young children alone. The cost of living is rising rapidly, unemployment is increasing, and the burden of their families is all on them. For these women, life is a difficult tug-of-war.
Some people try to find a way out and take their children to neighboring countries such as Poland and Germany to find a way to live.
But abroad, new problems are in front of the eye, language incompetence, cultural differences are large, and it is difficult to find a suitable job.
Even worse, some people have experienced exploitation and bullying in exotic countries because of their vulnerable identities, and have no good options to leave or stay.
Outside people always shout “women’s independence,” but in Ukraine this “independence” is not an opportunity, but a heavy burden.
What they need most is not praise and applause, but practical help to help them ease their psychological trauma, provide job training, restore order in their lives, and at the same time, have more social support for their children to be taken care of.
The most fundamental thing is to end the war, let men go home and make families whole again.
The war will eventually end one day, but it leaves the wounds on Ukrainian women, and it takes generations to slowly heal.
They don't really want to be so-called "female men", but they just have no choice. Their true desire is always to return to a stable home and be daughters, wives and mothers again.
What was originally done by men in factories, farmland and battlefields now almost all falls to Ukrainian women.
In military factories, the workshop must be 24 hours a day, but all the workers who take turns to work are female workers. In the farmland, it is also women who drive tractors to cultivate, fertilize and harvest.
In underground air-raid shelters, many people earn money to support their families during the day and take care of the elderly and children at night. They take on almost all the roles they can take on.
The number of women in the Ukrainian army is also increasing, with data showing that there are approximately 6,7 thousand female soldiers, more than two-tenths of the total army, of which tens of thousands have been sent to the front to fight on the ground.
More brutally, thousands of women were expecting to enter the battlefield in harsh conditions, not out of ideals to join the army, but under real persecution.
Donbass’s “Night Shark Drone Squadron” is a striking example of Captain Daria being just a college student studying artificial intelligence before the war.
But when a large number of men are absent, she becomes an indispensable technical backbone to lead the squad on the battlefield, they are not born warriors, but because there is no substitute, they can only harden the scalp to do.
The battlefield is only one side. In the rear, women are under equally heavy pressure. Statistics show that about 300,000 men died due to the war in Ukraine, which means that at least 250,000 widows are left behind.
Most of them are between their twenties and thirties and forties, and many of them have to raise young children alone. The cost of living is rising rapidly, unemployment is increasing, and the burden of their families is all on them. For these women, life is a difficult tug-of-war.
Some people try to find a way out and take their children to neighboring countries such as Poland and Germany to find a way to live.
But abroad, new problems are in front of the eye, language incompetence, cultural differences are large, and it is difficult to find a suitable job.
Even worse, some people have experienced exploitation and bullying in exotic countries because of their vulnerable identities, and have no good options to leave or stay.
Outside people always shout “women’s independence,” but in Ukraine this “independence” is not an opportunity, but a heavy burden.
What they need most is not praise and applause, but practical help to help them ease their psychological trauma, provide job training, restore order in their lives, and at the same time, have more social support for their children to be taken care of.
The most fundamental thing is to end the war, let men go home and make families whole again.
The war will eventually end one day, but it leaves the wounds on Ukrainian women, and it takes generations to slowly heal.
They don't really want to be so-called "female men", but they just have no choice. Their true desire is always to return to a stable home and be daughters, wives and mothers again.