There are many professions in the world, and there are some untold hardships behind them, but there is a profession in the country of India, and the situation behind them can be described as miserable.
These are the women sugarcane workers in India who even cut off their wombs in order to keep their jobs.
What kind of truth is hidden behind the unbelievable? Why did these women sugarcane workers do this?
Sugar industry in India
Speaking of India, it has always been a magical country in the eyes of the public because there are so many incredible customs and things in this country.
However, it is undeniable that India is very developed in some aspects, such as the sugar industry.
According to the statistics of experts, India's sugar production is second only to Brazil, which is the largest in the world.
This mainly depends on India's unique climate, as well as historical factors, when India was occupied by the British army, India opened up a lot of sugar cane fields at the request of the British because of trade needs.
Over time, the British left India, India regained its autonomy, and the sugar industry was retained.
Slowly, many companies discovered the potential of India, and Coca-Cola was one of them, as was his rival Pepsi.
The two companies are competing with each other in India's sugar industry, which has also given a lot of excitement to India's sugar industry.
Why these companies choose India because, firstly, India has a large sugar production, and secondly, sugar in India is cheap.
And the most important thing is the market behind India, take Coca-Cola as an example, after processing products in India, they will soon be able to sell to the Asian market, and the Asian market has always been the main battlefield of some large enterprises in the United States and the West.
The integrated production and sales system established by Coca-Cola Company has enabled Coca-Cola Company to firmly control the Asian cola market.
Sugarcane worker
Beneath this glamorous exterior, however, a deformed profession was born, called the sugarcane labourer.
Harvesting sugarcane is a hard job, but it is nothing to these women workers, because what they have to go through is even harsher.
First of all, let's understand the working system of sugarcane women, they need to work more than ten hours a day, and the weather in India can be imagined to be very hot.
Working in the sun for more than ten hours, let alone a woman, even a hard-working man is also bitter.
Not only that, but these female workers do not have holidays, which means that they work from beginning to end of the year, and they work every day when they open their eyes, and they work until the evening, and the time for rest and meals is very limited.
If you are sick, you can ask for leave, but if you take one day off, you will be deducted three days' wages, which means that if you are sick for three days, you will work in vain.
However, the intensity of the work of harvesting sugarcane is very high, and it is easy to cause physical discomfort, and many female workers would rather endure these discomforts and insist on working with illness, resulting in the phenomenon of female workers dying of exhaustion and illness is not uncommon.
It's like a slave before, except that the exploiters used to use the whip, and the exploiters now use money.
However, this is not the most miserable, according to the reporter's investigation, these sugarcane women have undergone surgery to remove the uterus, which sounds incredible, but it is a real thing that happened in India.
There are even some villages where these women sugarcane workers who have had their wombs removed are inhabited, and the whole village is called a wombless village.
However, behind this is an unknown history of blood and tears.
The history of blood and tears of a sugarcane worker
Why did these women sugarcane workers do this? This brings us to the caste system in India.
Without exception, these women workers were all low-caste people and were called untouchables by the upper castes.
All people in the lower caste system live like animals in front of the higher castes, without dignity, let alone find a suitable job.
People of the upper castes can trample and beat them at will, and what is even more terrifying is that this kind of thinking has been ingrained in India, and they are educated at birth.
And these low-caste women live even worse because India is a country where the status of women is extremely low.
India's rape and female suicide rates are among the highest in the world, and many women are overwhelmed and choose to commit suicide, and those women who survive are always at risk of being raped.
Under this oppression, these women had to choose to work as sugar cane workers, but the problem was that women had their periods every month, and women at this time were considered unclean in India.
The owner of the sugar cane plantation would not let them step into the plantation because the owner was convinced that they would defile the sugar plantation, and the woman's period lasted almost a week or so.
If you don't work for a week, you may have to deduct more than half a month's salary, which makes many female workers miserable.
Not only that, but if a female worker is pregnant, she will not be able to keep the job to a large extent, so after weighing the pros and cons, these female workers can only make this choice.
The uterus is a very important organ for a woman, and removing it will have a great impact on her health, but if she doesn't remove it, she will be starved to death and raped, and she can barely survive after being removed.
However, the medical conditions in India are not very good, especially since most of the women workers like these are in some remote towns and villages, and the medical conditions are very poor.
As a result, many female workers have been left with serious sequelae after surgery, and some female workers have even died on the operating table.
However, there are still a large number of female workers who go to this operation one after another, and they are gambling with their lives for tomorrow.
There are also some female workers who choose to give birth early and then have a hysterectomy.
Terrible reality
The most chilling thing is that these female workers work so hard every day, and their daily wages are only a few dozen yuan.
Some people may wonder why these people are still so desperate with only a few dozen dollars, and the answer is India's huge population.
India has the largest population in the world, but the land area of India is not particularly large, which leads to serious employment problems.
Don't look at the hard work of this sugarcane worker, how many people can't do it if they want to, after all, India is the country that has the most shortage of people.
Therefore, if these female workers make some mistakes or have any physical problems, they may face direct dismissal from the boss.
It can be said that as soon as he was fired on the front foot, someone immediately came up to fill his position on the back foot, and these female workers who stayed behind would be fired by the boss mercilessly when they were too old to work.
These old women sugarcane workers are left alone and waiting for their death, which is the current reality in India.
It sounds terrible, but the reality is often more tragic than what is documented in the article, and there are many problems in India today, not only the huge population, but also the fact that women commit suicide every day.
Perhaps suicide is also a relief for these low-caste women, because these low-caste women who are alive have a numb life that is more painful than death.
Only by breaking this cruel thinking and system can we truly save these women from their miserable lives.