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Digital nomadism has proved to be one of the most popular working trends of the last years, seeing workers spend time abroad for extended periods of time. Until recently, men have traditionally dominated the ranks of digital nomads.
But now, increasing numbers of women are becoming part of this lifestyle. Nomads.com reported that women now make up approximately 14% of remote workers worldwide, a jump from just 11% last year.
When it comes to deciding where to work remotely, not all digital nomads have the freedom to be able to pick a destination solely based on sunshine, nightlife, or culture. For female travelers, personal safety is a huge factor.
Women highlight considerations like local attitudes towards them and whether it’s safe to walk home alone after dark while traveling—and even more so when relocating somewhere.
Tourist rental company Holidu have put together an index of the safest cities for female digital nomads, using data from actual travelers about where they have felt the most comfortable. Here are the safest cities for female digital nomads in Europe.
The index was based on a list of the 200 cities ranked as the best for digital nomads on Nomads.com and analysed them across a range of different factors to determine the safety of women.
This included the safety of walking alone as a female, friendliness to foreigners to consider receptiveness to nomads in general, friendliness to females to consider how welcoming it is to women, and the ratio of female/male digital nomads to understand where is drawing the most women nomads.
The study also incorporated whether a destination has legislation on sexual harassment in employment and whether women can take the same jobs as men to consider attitudes toward working women.
Three of the safest cities for female remote workers are in Europe, according to the survey. Venice, Italy, came in fourth globally. Its score for comfort of walking alone as a female was one of the lowest in the top 10, but it excelled in most other factors.
The city of canals and sumptuous palazzi was given the highest ranking of perceived friendliness towards foreigners and females. Its ratio of female to male digital nomads is on the upper end, at 20%. Venice has legislation on sexual harassment in employment, and women can take the same jobs as men.
Valencia in Spain came in sixth position. The coastal city with a sweeping beach was given a higher score than Venice for comfort of walking alone. It ranked lower in terms of friendliness towards foreigners but received the highest category for friendliness to women. Valencia, too, has legislation on sexual harassment in employment, and women can take the same jobs as men.
In eighth place, Porto in Portugal was the final European city in the top 10. It has one of the highest scores for comfort of walking alone globally. However, its ranking for perceived friendliness towards foreigners and females was average. The city has legislation on sexual harassment in employment, and women can take the same jobs as men.
Portugal performed well across the board, with all five of the six cities in the campaign being in the top 20. The country welcomes digital nomads on its dedicated visa, which allows remote workers to live and work in the country for up to a year.
Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring four people and damaging residential and commercial buildings in Kyiv and other parts of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.
According to the Ukrainian air force, 56 of 88 Russian drones were shot down and 24 disoriented by means of electronic warfare.
Drones have played a big part in the conflict in Ukraine, with both sides employing them to carry out sometimes very long-range attacks on each other.
Meanwhile, Keith Kellogg, the US special envoy to Ukraine, found himself in the middle of a controversy over appearing to suggest that Ukraine could be divided like Berlin after World War II.
Kellogg posted on X, formerly Twitter, to clarify remarks he made in an interview with The Times newspaper published on Saturday.
In the interview, he was quoted as saying: “You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War II, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone.”
His remarks were interpreted by some media outlets as suggestions that Ukraine could be partitioned in a manner similar to postwar Berlin, but Kellogg denied this.
“I was speaking of a post-ceasefire resiliency force in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. In discussions of partitioning, I was referencing areas or zones of responsibility for an allied force (without US troops). I was NOT referring to a partitioning of Ukraine,” he said.
According to the Times, Kellogg said a demilitarized zone could be established along the existing lines of control in eastern Ukraine as a buffer between Ukrainian and allied troops, and Russian forces.
“You look at a map and you create, for lack of a better term, a demilitarized zone (DMZ),” he was quoted as saying.
Kellogg suggested that the presence of international troops in Ukraine would “not be provocative at all” to Russia, as they would be “west of the (Dnipro), which is a major obstacle.”
He did admit that Russian President Vladimir Putin “might not accept” the proposal.
Russian troops currently occupy all or most of four regions in eastern Ukraine that it claims as its own, which together make up some 20% of Ukrainian territory.
As the US continues to push for peace talks and a deal with Moscow, US envoy Steve Witkoff held a third set of talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Moscow is facing accusations from the US and others of dragging its feet on a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire that Kyiv has agreed to.
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