08 maart 2018: Photo and words by @renaeffendiphoto (Rena Effendi) | Where Mahatma Gandhi once walked his famous Salt March to protest the British rule and fight for equality, tribal women in Gujarat, India, are still weighed down by poverty. At a brick kiln they earn less than $3 a day. The brick industry is the second largest industry in India. Nearly 50% of the workforce is female, and their wages are just half of what the male workers earn. Carrying heavy loads of bricks while coated in dust, these seasonal women workers have very poor access to healthcare and are paid even less than others because of their tribal origin. In this day and age, inequality of pay still persists between women and men, as well as various ethnicities at all levels of society around the world.
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