Russia's Ministry of Labor issued a decree allowing women to work on the metro in 2019.
Credit:	Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS/Getty Images

Russia's Ministry of Labor issued a decree allowing women to work on the metro in 2019.
Credit: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS/Getty Images

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Women are finally driving Moscow's subway trains after a decades-long ban

Trains on the Moscow's famous Metro subway system will now be driven by women, after a decades-long ban on female drivers was overturned.