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Triple burden

For domestic workers, women’s month marks their ongoing struggle

15th August 2024 Lilita Gcwabe 0

Domestic workers are still fighting from the margins of unregulated labour where slave-like servitude persists and goes unreported.

Meet the women succeeding in the fishing industry

15th May 2019 Equal Times 0

In the port of General Santos, the centre of the Filipino tuna industry, Mercy Ong is one of the few women who gives orders. When […]

‘Made in Tunisia’: the worker-casualties of the globalisation of the textile industry

14th March 2019 Equal Times 0

The manager “threw the keys down and left, passport in hand,” says one of the former employees of the small garment factory in Ksar Hellal […]

From the boardroom to the factory floor, trade union women say “nothing about us without us”

23rd November 2018 Equal Times 0

Last week, Equal Times published the Count Us In! Women leading change special report. Featuring case studies and interviews with women trade unionists from Angola […]

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