Women make up the majority of informal workers. Many of them are on the streets providing for their families, working in a variety of professions such as street vendors, market traders, artists, waste pickers, sex workers and many others.
Between 2015 and 2017, 55.5% of people who sought work on the streets as a means of survival were women, according to the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (DIEESE). The vast majority of them is black.
The challenges and struggles of women street vendors
Life and work on the street are especially difficult for women. 71.4% of female street vendors suffer moral violence at work, they earn less than men and are 3 times more likely to have their merchandise seized while working.
Observatóriodas Metrópoles
Access the survey “Camelôs: Panorama of Working Conditions for Men and Women in the Center of Rio”
Movimento Unido dos Camelôs
Get to know MUCA – United Movement of Street Vendors and its founder Maria dos Camelôs:
