![]() ![]() This grassroots movement went on to transform the male-dominated banana unions of Latin America, and it continues to do so today.Īlong the way it also brought about changes in the way the women dealt with gender roles at home. They deal with sweat and fungicides, sexual harassment and long commutes, and then they start the second shift – housework, laundry, cooking and trying to spend some time with the children their extended families are raising for them.īut in the early 1990s, on Sundays, their one free day a week, some of them took three hours to attend workshops put on by the women’s committee of a large banana union. The women of Bananeras stand in banana packing warehouses for 10-12 hours at a time, six or seven days a week. Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America ![]()
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