The Global Development page in the Guardian often features inspirational articles on women's lives and struggles for equality from around the world, and I thought this one was particularly interesting in that it mentioned efforts to help transgender women, who are often discriminated against, find employment too.
Extract:
Down on the platform, where the air is intensely muggy in the March heat, a train glides in. The driver is a woman.The ticket office is run by a woman. A transgender woman helps customers at the inquiry desk. On four of the metro’s stations, passengers can go into a special cubicle to breastfeed their babies.An army of women make up about 80% of the 1,300-strong metro workforce.
From cleaning posts to senior management roles – aside from the managing director, who is a man – this is an operation conceived to give women more job opportunities.It’s a safe and clean environment for me. The money I get makes a big difference to our budget and to what I can do for my family,” says Rejitha, who goes by a single name
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/01/koshi-metro-smashed-old-rules-indian-women-drive-change-trains-kerala