Video: Addressing women workers’ multiple burden

She said that even before the pandemic, women workers were already suffering from the heavy burden of lack of job security and low-paying jobs, as well as unpaid domestic labour responsibilities and lack of adequate health care This made women workers more vulnerable to the crisis and made their work and care burden heavier to carry. 

Shin said that an equal and better future comes only when women can live and work with dignity and are free of all the unnecesary social and economic burdens imposed to them by the patriarchal status quo. 

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I'd like to talk about what an equal and better future means for me today.

Women are often denied construction jobs or skills training, and eventually forced to take low-wage, low-skilled jobs.

When she manages to get a job in the male-dominant construction field, she often suffers sexual harassment disguised as jokes, and is bullied under abusive environment perceived as men’s culture.

I believe an equal and better future comes only when women can work safely without any of these discriminations and violence. Solidarity is the key to that future.

Women's work is not limited to workplace.

Back at home, more work awaits her. To her, home is not a place for rest. It’s a place where she has to do caring labor without being paid.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the burden of domestic and caring labor has been intensified for women.

Household chores and caring labor are not women’s duty. That’s patriarchal idea, which is simply wrong.

As we approach the 8th of March, International Women’s Day, we want to know what does achieving an Equal and Better Future mean for you?

We say – No recovery without gender equality! Do you agree? Tell us why!

Use BWI interactive posters to tell us your position. Every voice matters, each position counts. Together we will build equal and better future.