Women Cotton Workers at Pakistan

A girl holds cotton blooms in her shirt knotted as a bag while standing with others along a street in Meeran Pur village, north of Karachi November 23, 2014. 

Women make up the bulk of Pakistan's half a million cotton producers, but labour rights activists say they are often exploited by overseers, who often withhold their wages and may subject some of them to sexual harassment. Many women work in Pakistan's cotton fields for less than $2 a day. Last year, a group of around 40 women decided their low wages could no longer cover food and clothing for their families so they did something almost unheard for poor working women in rural Pakistan - they went on strike. (Reuters)





 



Photographs by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
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