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These women in Indonesia continue to fight fires even as gender bias persists

Donning jumpsuits, rubber boots and surgical masks, these women set out into the smoke to put out the fires for the sake of their families and forests.

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尽管性别歧视依然存在,但这些印尼女性仍在继续灭火。

Members of the all-women The Power of Mama (TPoM) volunteer firefighting team spray water onto smouldering peatland in West Kalimantan. Photo: Heribertus/AFP

Housework in the morning followed by several hours of firefighting: women in Indonesian Borneo risk life and limb to battle blazes making their communities sick, all while shouldering a sexist backlash.

More than 100 women, many of them homemakers, are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed The Power of Mama or TPoM, patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.

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