Women in the Lines: A Case Study of Packing Workers

The paper explores the economic disempowerment of married female factory worker as a result of being a mother, a working woman, and a community affairs participant. Most of the time women are forced to sacrifice on their careers than men. They wrestle with their triple burden role as a woman. Moser (2003) argues that women's work is reproductive work, productive work, and community managing work. These roles prevent women from utilizing their full potential as a worker as they juggle their career with their other roles as a woman. It is imperative that women must be given voice, choice, and agency on what they want to do (Gascon, 2017). Women must not be caught up with their triple roles which hinder their freedom to make their own choices. The traditional roles of women hinder their freedom to have better life chances such as becoming a successful worker without having the threat of giving up such opportunity should the need arises just because she is the woman, the mother. The expectation of society that women can work but have to take care of family matters should be changed. Women must not be put into a situation where her career is compromised to put family first. It is about time that we find ways to eradicate this thinking of “because she is the woman.”