Breaking The Gender Earnings Gap
by The Daily Eye Team February 23 2016, 5:19 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secsBetty Ajio has made a living for the past 23 years doing a job that most women would not think of doing.
The 43-year-old metal fabricator makes 120 to 230 cooking pots a day in Kisenyi, a slum in the heart of Kampala, Uganda.
Ajio and her four male employees operate in sweltering conditions. They shovel dirt and pour molten metal to make the pots. Ajio admits the work can be grueling, but says she would not trade her job for an easier one.
“I prefer doing this, because I think I can earn more than by selling clothes or vegetables,” she says.
Ajio is a fairly rare phenomenon in Africa and even globally as a woman in a male-dominated industry.