About 74% of teaworkers leave in poverty "Until the fair demands of the tea workers are not met, if we drink tea, this responsibility will definitely fall on our shoulders as consumers. If the consumers do not say that all the tea brands of this country mixed with the sweat and tears of innocent workers can only improve the quality of life of the workers."The women and children who work in tea gardens, they have no socio-economic security. The poor workers of the tea gardens are being deprived of various facilities year after year. The tea industry is dependent on the women of tea communities as nearly half of the tea workers are women. Most of these women are tea leaf pickers and others work in tea factories. Yet the women of the tea gardens face multidimensional discrimination and a unique set of problems which are often overlooked. Their needs and demands remain suppressed under the twofold oppression of the tea industry and the chains of patriarchy. Needless to say, the lives of the tea workers cannot be improved if the specific problems faced by the women are ignored.
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