A community established on Yangon’s outskirts by an award-winning former actress and supported by generous donors is home to a group of elderly women who found fame on the stage and screen.
Security concerns in the midst of the post-coup civil war have made it difficult for women in Myanmar’s central plains to travel outside of their villages for jobs, while those who do work face pay gaps between what they earn and the much higher wages men earn for similar work.
BY Frontier
