Women workers in the country’s 'footwear capital' say they have endured too many years of job insecurity and wage theft.
If our lawmakers fail to confront abuse in their own workplace, how do we trust them to enact effective policies for the rest of us?
Violence in the health sector, where a majority of workers are women, accounts for a quarter of assaults at work – impacting societies at large.
From gruelling working conditions to more limited access to healthcare, austerity policies have hit women hardest. But they are fighting back.
Refusing to be silent, women are leading research, campaigns and new strategies to stop trolls and create safer online spaces.
Mayan women’s bodies, labour and knowledge have been exploited for centuries. This is an old story, with a neoliberal twist. Español.
Mayan weavers are organising to defend their art, pushing for new legislation to recognise and protect their ‘collective intellectual property’. Español.
Despite shocking accounts of harassment and discrimination within their profession, women lawyers in Zimbabwe and beyond are fighting for more gender-sensitive laws.
Some are heralding new technologies as the key to managing the so-called ‘silver tsunami.’ But there are significant privacy, labour and equality concerns.
