Labor Rights !

Women have to fight the barriers of hatred men feel to wards them everyday. Facing the fight everyday  in competition with men for leading job positions is a struggle that is well aware but hasn't been resolved. Women are slowly raising to the top, this is improvement and it is empowering to young girls that they can reach for any job opportunity that men receive. 

"Heredia and the other women labour leaders interviewed by IPS pointed out that only one Latin American woman has reached the presidency of a trade union federation: Bárbara Figueroa, who since 2012 has led Chile’s Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, the country’s biggest union, with over half a million members."

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/women-forge-a-space-for-themselves-in-latin-american-labour-movement/

Alexandra Arguedas, head of TUCA’s gender programme, explained that to boost female participation in the labour movement, the regional confederation demanded at its second ordinary congress in 2012 that its member unions set a 40 percent quota for women in leadership structures.

TUCA - International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) regional organisation for the Americas, and the largest regional workers´ organisation. It was founded in 2008 and represents more than 50 million workers from 53 national trade unions in 23 countries.