Unsung Heroes

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U H: T U S  HR

made decisions that favored men over women. He often said that

he thought of us as his daughters and that he would not allow

his daughters to take on the same type of risks as men take. This,

however, gave the men many advantages over the women. One

main pain point was that women had limited transportation in

the field. The women were assigned to ride in an SUV, and the

driver would drop off each person (three or four women) in the

assigned village in the morning and then travel back to pick up

each person in the afternoon. If we finished our work early, we

could not go to another village but had to wait for the driver to

pick us up. It meant women often could only visit one village per

day and we might ...