https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63905490
'When Yuna turned up for her first day at work, as a clerk at a major bank, she
was not expecting the tasks she would be assigned. First was to make lunch for
her team. Later, she was ordered to take the hand towels from the men's toilet
home and wash them. These jobs fell to her, she was told, as the newest female
member of staff.
At first she politely refused. Could the men not take their own towels home to
wash, she asked her boss, but he replied incredulously: "How can you expect men
to wash towels?"
"He got very angry, and I realised that if I continued to fight this, the
harassment would get worse, so I started washing the towels," Yuna says. But
because she had complained, she was marked.
As she wanders through the dark alleys of her local food market, dressed in a
black baseball cap, oversized jeans, and a T-shirt, she tries to disguise
herself as she recounts her experience. This is a small town, and she has done
something she could have been fired for. She filmed everything and reported the
bank to the government, to be investigated.
What tipped her over the edge was not just the abuse, which grew steadily
worse, but the lack of support from her female colleagues - those in their 20s,
like her.
"It's like this everywhere, don't make a fuss," they had pleaded.'
Via Liza Hadiz and Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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