To mark the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8, 2018 AFP presents a series of 45 photos depicting women performing roles or working in professions more traditionally held by men. More images can be found in www.afpforum.com Search SLUG "WOMEN-DAY -PACKAGE". (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on March 7, 2018 shows (from top, L-R) Nicol Gomez, 37, guardian at the La Esperanza prison, Somali football coach and player Marwa Mauled Abdi, 24, on March 1, 2018 in Hargeisa, Rajpati Devi, 45, a bike mechanic and puncture repairer, in Allahabad on February 24, 2018, New South Wales state emergency services (SES) volunteer Michelle Whye in Sydney on February 23, 2018, Anny Divya, 31, an Indian pilot who became the youngest woman in the world to captain the Boeing 777 aircraft on February 24, 2018, Sarah Achieng a 31 year-old professional boxer and sports administrator in Nairobi on February 27, 2018, South Sudanese cattle herder Mary Amer, 22, in Mingkaman, South Sudan, on March 3, 2018, Arazo Qadri, a 27-year-old female member of the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on February 20, 2018, Heather Marold Thomason, butcher and founder of Primal Supply Meats, on March 2, 2018, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Ana Sousa, 45, TAP Air Portugal pilot for 11 years, poses for a portrait at a TAP hangar in Lisbon on February 28, 2018, Ran Namise, 24, a firefighter belonging to the command squad, posing in front of a fire engine at Kojimachi Fire Station in Tokyo on February 23, 2018. / AFP PHOTO