Women left behind by their migrating husbands have had to fill up the gaps. Via TRF_Stories
CHEGUTU, Zimbabwe, Nov 27 - Donning a blue work suit, matching helmet and cement-spattered gumboots, 32-year old Mateline Mangari heaved a barrow of bricks over the deep mud cratering her Zimbabwean building site.
She is one of millions of women taking on the sort of hard, physical jobs once done by men as traditions break under the strain of a failing economy and working men go elsewhere. Mangari's lone female colleague on the Chegutu site, 24-year old Thandi Sibalo, became a labourer two years ago when she felt death had left her with no better option.
"They migrated in their millions to ... work as labourers on thriving farms in neighbouring countries like South Africa and Zambia," labour relations expert Denford Hwangwa, who works for the government, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Making ends meet is hard in a country where inflation hovers near 300 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The International Labour Organization's statistics for September show that women make up 72% of the agricultural workforce, up from 66% in 2015. "In Zimbabwe, tough jobs once known to be men's jobs, are the ones easily available," Ratidzai Maungwe, an independent labour expert, told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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