A shortage of women officers in the Myanmar Police Force is hampering its ability to investigate sexual crimes and human trafficking but recruitment is a challenge, partly because of rules favouring men… and a lack of changing rooms in some stations.
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
