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International Women's Day: AFP production in the French and international news headlines
For the International Women's Day, AFP made a series of photo and video portraits of women working in jobs traditionally considered to be male-dominated.
The photo series has more than 1,000 downloads by international media: from Australia to South Africa to the Gulf and the United States. AFP journalists went to meet 45 women. Mechanic, pilot, stuntwoman, soldier, astronaut or even butcher, they share their ambitions, how to succeed in finding their own place in traditionally male workplace environments and how to overcome discrimination.
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1 / 10Shana Power, 25, a mixed martial artist (MMA), poses for a picture in the gym which she co-owns called Power House Intensive Training (PHIT), in Johannesburg on February 28, 2018. © GULSHAN KHAN / AFP
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2 / 10Somali 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. © MUSTAFA SAEED / AFP
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3 / 10French 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. © PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP
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4 / 10Heather Marold Thomason, butcher and founder of Primal Supply Meats, poses for a picture in her company's dry-aging room on March 2, 2018, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. © DOMINICK REUTER / AFP
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5 / 10Maria Jose Martienz Ortiz, 43, Spanish firefighter poses for a picture in the 'Fuente San Luis' fire station facilities in Valencia on February 28, 2018. © JOSE JORDAN / AFP
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6 / 10South Sudanese cattle herder Mary Amer, 22, poses with her child in a camp in Mingkaman, South Sudan, on March 3, 2018. © STEFANIE GLINSKI / AFP
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7 / 10Ana Sousa, 45, TAP Air Portugal pilot for 11 years, poses for a portrait at a TAP hangar in Lisbon on February 28, 2018. © PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
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8 / 10Rajpati Devi, 45, a bike mechanic and puncture repairer, poses at her roadside workshop in Allahabad on February 24, 2018. © SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP
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9 / 10Nicol Gomez, 37, guardian at the La Esperanza prison poses for a portrait with a group of prisoners practicing yoga, in San Salvador, on March 4, 2018. © MARVIN RECINOS / AFP
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10 / 10Wendy Lawrence, 58, a retired US Navy captain and former NASA astronaut, is pictured on the Space Shuttle trainer that was used for astronaut's training at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington on February 28, 2018. © JASON REDMOND / AFP
The video series was covered by about 30 channels, almost 70% of them were international ones: BBC News, BBC World News, Sky News Arabia, Voice of America…
Top 3 most covered videos:
- Portrait of Mervat Bukhari, a force of nature draped head-to-toe in Islamic niqab, braved insults and taunts to become the first Saudi woman to work at a gas station
- Portrait of Wendy Lawrence, NASA's former woman astronaut, who logged over 1,200 hours in space
- Portrait of Captain Sandra Hernandez, the only female helicopter pilot in El Salvador’s contingent of the UN’s Mali peacekeeping mission