When the majority of the imports we use in the US come from other countries that use slave labor for those goods. And out of the entire global population of slaves in 2025, an estimated 75-80% are women. Roughly 54% in forced labor are women and girls.
Examples of Everyday Items Linked to Forced Labor
-Smartphones and laptops: Cobalt (DR Congo), semiconductors (China, Malaysia)
-Clothing: Cotton (Xinjiang, India, Uzbekistan), sewing factories (Bangladesh, Vietnam)
-Coffee & chocolate: Harvesting (Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana)
-Seafood: Fishing industries in Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries
-Construction materials: Bricks and tiles (India, Pakistan)
-Other electronics, textiles, footwear, fishing, agriculture, and mining that are high-risk industries for forced labor.
Many goods are imported from countries with documented labor abuses, especially involving:
-China (e.g., Xinjiang region — cotton, solar panels)
-Bangladesh, Vietnam, India (garments, textiles)
-Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana (cocoa)
-DR Congo (cobalt mining for batteries)
Much of the “invisible labor” that sustains economies – caregiving, teaching, medicine & healthcare, computing – has been largely done by women. And much of women’s work and credit unfortunately has always been undocumented, unpaid and deliberately suppressed.
It gets more depressing every day to have to hear that women contributed absolutely nothing to society and witness the credit for everything women have ever done get stolen and denied.
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Women built men. They’d do well to remember that. They wouldn’t be here if not for the woman who gave them life.
We literally birthed everyone tho, and raised them. 20+ years investment into each child minimum.
And they’re all keyboard warriors using Wi-Fi which is based on spread spectrum tech, built by a woman.
Also thank you for the detailed post. There is such a concerted effort to invisibilise and discredit women.
Also women have always been a part of the workforce. Only upper class and caste (kept) women were not.