Millions of women cook for 120 million children daily, yet earn less than $1 a day with no benefits or job security

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53920704

I always hear good things about how organized the Indian working class is, and then I read articles like this

“I started about 10 years ago at 500 rupees (0.5$) per month. Now I get 2,000 rupees ($23) monthly. It’s difficult to manage with such high inflation, but whenever we ask about increasing our payment, we’re just told it will happen someday. Nobody tells us when,”