{"id":115104,"date":"2023-06-22T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/bravery-has-no-gender-how-is-the-war-impacting-ukrainian-women\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:20:39","slug":"bravery-has-no-gender-how-is-the-war-impacting-ukrainian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/bravery-has-no-gender-how-is-the-war-impacting-ukrainian-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bravery has no gender\u2019: How is the war impacting Ukrainian women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115104\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWomen are not &#8220;just victims of Russia&#8217;s war&#8221;, they have laid down their lives on the battlefield, said one expert. No one is left unscathed by war. It has catastrophic and at times transformative impacts on both sexes &#8211; yet still there are gendered dynamics. Sexual violence and civilian deaths have become an endemic feature of the Ukraine war, amid gruesome accounts of women being beaten, raped, tortured and executed.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Center of Civil Liberties Ukraine Oleksandra Matviichuk said more than 41,000 war crimes had been documented in Ukraine by the \u2018Tribunal for Putin&#8217; Initiative, bringing together several Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the situation on the ground. \u201cIt&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg, but we know a lot of women and children are victims,\u201d she said at an event organised by the US-based McCain Institute on Tuesday.\u201cThe crimes have grown so large it is impossible to recognise all of the stories\u201d. Matviichuk recalled a harrowing interview with a Ukrainian woman, who had just lost her entire family in a Russian missile strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard them dying,\u201d she quoted the woman as saying. \u201cMy husband was breathing heavily, straining as if he was trying to throw the rubble off himself, but he couldn&#8217;t. At some point, he just went still. My grandmother died instantly. I heard my daughter crying and then she also went quiet. As for my son, my mother told me that he called for me several times, and then nothing.\u201d She claimed Russia had \u201cenjoyed\u201d a \u201ccircle of impunity\u201d when it came to targeting civilians, citing devastating war crimes of its troops in Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia, Mali, Syria and Lybia.<\/p>\n<p>But Matviichuk was quick to not present women &#8216;just as victims of Russia\u2019s war.\u00b4 \u201cI know a lot of fantastic women who do essential work, who fight for freedom and for our democratic choices. Women document war crimes. They take important political decisions and coordinate huge civil initiatives. Women are at the forefront of this battle because bravery has no gender\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The same doesn&#8217;t go for the other side, others claimed. \u201cAs somebody who has interfaced with high-level Russian military and defence officials, as a woman, I know that in the Russian system, there are very few women, if any, who have any sort of authority,\u201d said Dr Evelyn Farkas, Executive Director of the McCain Insitute. \u201cThe Russian women who are at senior levels tend to be mouthpieces of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women do occupy top-level roles in Russia, with Elvira Nabiullina steering the country\u2019s war economy as Head of the Central Bank. It has traditionally been characterised as a patriarchal country, with social and cultural norms perpetuating male dominance and gender inequalities. The same can be said for many countries, including Ukraine, which have patriarchal elements.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian women are laying down their lives on the frontline, contesting gender stereotypes within the country. Though women have fought in the Ukrainian army for decades, their number started to climb following the Russian-backed war in the east that broke out in 2014. It has soared since Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion in February 2022. They now account for some 22% of Ukraine\u2019s military, according to Kateryna Pryimak, co-founder of the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement. At this week&#8217;s McCain event, Farkas claimed this mobilisation showed how Ukraine was \u201cbanding together\u201d to protect \u201chuman rights\u201d and the nation \u2013 unlike Russian society which was \u201chunkering down\u201d. At stake in Ukraine was something profound added head of the Center of Civil Liberties Matviichu. \u201cRussia&#8217;s war against Ukraine is not just a war between two states, this is a war between two systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Russian world, a woman performs only assigned roles in the family and society, and man must dominate. Authoritarian regimes are based on this cultural attitude because the established relations between people reflect the society\u2019s idea of political power.\u201d How women are treated is \u201calways a projection of what [a] government itself does to people\u201d, she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/06\/22\/bravery-has-no-gender-how-is-the-war-impacting-ukrainian-women\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/bravery-has-no-gender-how-is-the-war-impacting-ukrainian-women\/\">&#8216;Bravery has no gender&#8217;: How is the war impacting Ukrainian women?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[559,606,607,608,589,568],"class_list":["post-115104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ukraine","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-war","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}