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Day Seven



5.30am: I wake up and cook breakfast for everyone. Then I take a nap. After waking up, I get ready, have my breakfast and go to the factory. I don’t enjoy going to the factory every day but to meet all family and financial needs, I need to work every day. Myself and my coworkers often experience gender-based harassment. For instance, for frequent use of the toilet, for drinking water or for not completing targets in a given period of time, during sickness or if I take rest at work. It’s not only verbal abuse, supervisors abuse us physically as well.



12.30pm: I work from 8am to 12.30pm. At lunch hour, I return home and give my children a bath. I take a bath myself and we have lunch together.



1.20pm: I then return to the factory and work until 7pm.



7pm: I got out of the factory and bought puri (fried bread) as a snack with 20 taka (£0.21). I ate the puri, got back to the factory and worked until 9pm. When we do overtime, we get paid for it. But before keeping the diary, we would do overtime and the factory would pay us the same. I think joining a union would improve my conditions at work as I think I would learn a lot from the union and their suggestions will help me to advocate for myself.



9pm: The factory breaks up at 9pm. Then I return home.



9.30pm: Returning home I was again busy bringing order to my dishevelled rooms. I was hungry so I bought muri (puffed rice) with 40 taka (£0.41) and chanachur with 70 taka (£0.72). I do some chores in the kitchen while eating them.



10pm: My husband returns and we have dinner together. After dinner I write down all my expenses and transactions in the diary. Then I go to sleep.



Total: 130 taka (£1.34)





