Women’s Rights in Lesotho are Hanging by a Thread
The end of an American trade deal could be disastrous for Lesotho, and the country’s female garment workers stand to lose the most.
At the end of each month, Rorisang Kamoli divides up her paycheck, the roughly $100 she earns from inspecting blue jeans in a factory in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. Part of it goes to her husband and infant son; another part pays for her brothers to go to school; the rest buys food for her father and grandparents. Kamoli, 27, is the only one of them with a job, and she owes her position to an unexpected source: an American trade
