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Hello, my name is Graciela
Rodriguez, and I am from San Jeronimo, Chihuahua. My typical day consists of waking up, making tortillas
for local residents as I have since I was 14, going to work for 9 hours and
coming home to be a mother to my 4 children (Monk 2010). I have worked at Foxconn for over two years
now. I was forced to get a second job because
my husband was shot and killed two years ago and I now have to take care of my family
on my own. Although a factory worker doesn’t get great pay, I don’t want to be
involved in any illegal business, and Foxconn was willing to hire me the day I
interviewed because of their need for more people. I began just as the suicides in China were
becoming prominent in the news, but I needed the job, and it wasn’t nearly as
bad as the news claimed it was in China.
Things aren’t perfect, and I often need my neighbor to watch my children
when I am forced to work late. I wish I
could make as good of money as my husband used to, but I am a woman, which means
I only make 84% of what he did (Monk, 2010).
I am doing the best I can for now and will be praying I get a raise soon.
If you would like to help women like Graciela, working women
in poverty, you can visit http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mexican-women-in-poverty/
which educates women in Mexico on health and shows them the opportunities they can have
to create a better life.
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