In celebration of 2019 International Women’s Day, BWI will showcase a series of #Herstories by women trade union members and activists fighting against gender-based violence and campaigning for gender equality.
Joseana Bezerra, a construction worker in Brazil details her challenges in working in the construction sector, where she has worked for nearly six years. She has been called a “little woman” and on one occasion at a civil construction project her employer told her, “to make the table, and his bed as well.”