An ongoing Houthi war against women's work.. Housewives in Sana'a are suffering
English - Monday 31 October 2022 الساعة 04:43 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
With the Houthi terrorist militia, the Iranian arm, overthrowing the constitutional authority in Yemen, and confiscating the salaries of public sector employees in the country, many housewives in Sanaa resorted to searching for alternative sources of livelihood to compensate for what their breadwinners lost due to the coup.
Housewives went to professional professions that provide a decent living for her and her family, where some of them learned how to bake cakes and others learned how to bake and prepare bread, as it is linked to people's daily needs, and some of them learned and started their work in sewing centers and hairdressing shops.
Some became sellers and marketers of commercial products, and others chose to go to the labor market as workers in the women's section of restaurants or in the offices of travel and tourism companies, and health clubs for women, in order to obtain the least resource that would enable them to cover even a small part of the hardships of living and life.
The Houthi militia did not like this, and it launched repeated campaigns to close these centers and shops under false pretexts, to provoke crises and expel workers from various offices and stores, as part of its organized barbaric war against Yemeni women.
Samira Ahmed, a housewife, a former worker in the women’s section at the Hot Spicy restaurant in Sana’a, complains to NewsYemen that the Houthis cut off her livelihood and prevented her from working in the women’s section under the pretext of mixing, even though the entire section is only entered by families.
And she adds, these are human monsters who have no conscience. I can no longer provide for my children, because their father is dead and I have no source of income.
Najwa Khaled, one of the workers who was laid off by the Houthis in one of the travel and tourism companies’ offices on Al-Sitteen Street in Sana’a, told NewsYemen that militia members, security personnel, and tourism office employees in Al-Sabeen Directorate raid and close the office of the company in which she worked as a receptionist from time to time. Several times and blackmailed its owner financially under the pretext of preventing mixing of women and men until the owner of the shop dismissed her and brought another young man to work as a substitute for her.
