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...family life” – reflecting the prescribed role of women as wives and mothers first. In fact, in the pre-War era roughly 13,000 women were employed in the railways, but mainly in domestic positions, again connecting to wider societal stereotypes about the roles women were most suited for. Ashby goes on to note that “jobs were usually given to widows with children and...

...families led many not to engage in fighting and flee Syria in the first place. One young Syrian man in Ketermaya camp in south Lebanon told us: “If I didn’t have a child and a family, I would have gone back to Syria to fight with the fighters [of the FSA], but I cannot leave my family behind”. In fact, the majority of Syrian men Alert spoke to in Turkey and Lebanon...

...family life As schools started to close in 2020, the main impact was felt by women railway workers rather than their male colleagues, reflecting wider gender norms around the domestic division of labour. These working mothers were challenged by the need to juggle working their usual shifts, while managing new covid-related responsibilities, and also meeting the demand for...