![]() ![]() Roa didn’t set out to become an activist or a labor leader. Roa quit her last job as a maid in 2005, she has had remarkable success in getting the Colombian government and ordinary citizens to wrestle with that question and reconsider how domestic workers ought to be treated, as a matter of principle and under the law. “You say to yourself: ‘how is it possible that people could be so inhumane?’” Roa, who became a pioneering union leader in a country where maids have been powerless. ![]() “Remembering those things is hard,” said Ms. Roa, were at the bottom rung, typically assigned the most arduous tasks, and often kept out of sight when visitors arrived. The pay was a pittance: less than $150 per month. The shifts were long: 16-hour days, six days per week was standard. The rules for domestic workers were unwritten but clear to everyone back in 1996, when María Roa joined the throngs of Colombian women who fled violence in rural areas and set out to rebuild their lives in the relative safety of big cities. ![]()
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