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Note! In Swedish

Kiruna mine's first female driller, IngMari Lundmark, together with her daughter Anneli Lundmark, talks about the women who came before in the mine and the resistance they faced.

In Sweden, women were banned from working underground in mines in 1900, and it would take nearly 80 years before this law was finally abolished.

When the ban was lifted, electrician IngMari Lundmark became the first woman to attend the mining worker training program at LKAB and the first woman ever to work at the front in the Kiruna mine. For eight years, she worked alone on a drilling rig several hundred meters underground, lifting two tons of steel per shift.

Together, we tell the story of the women who came before, why women were banned, and the long and eventful struggle—especially in Norrbotten and Västerbotten—to reopen the mines to everyone. Who were the opponents? Who were the driving forces?

And above all, what was it like to come as the first woman into a male-dominated world?

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