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4.12 Workers with Family Responsibilities
Objectives
• To become aware of the problems workers with family responsibilities face
• To think about measures to give workers with family responsibilities equal opportunities
Target group
• Both men or women together or separately
• All ages
• All educational levels
• Formal and informal sector workers
Material
• This manual
Exercise
Step 1
• Explain to the participants that you are going to tell them a story and that everyone is playing a
role in that story
• Assign the following roles:
- Pisei
- Pisei’s husband
- 2 little children
- Grandmother (Pisei’s mother)
- 2 neighbours
- Friend of Pisei’s husband (1 or 2)
- Employer or supervisor in factory
- Bus driver
- Shopkeepers (2 or 3)
- Colleagues from Pisei and colleagues from her husband (rest)
• The setting should be as follows:
- Pisei, her husband and children are at one side of the room
- The neighbours are next to them
- The grandmother is a bit further away
- In between the neighbours and the grandmother the shopkeepers take a place
- In front of the shopkeepers there is a bus stop where the bus driver takes a seat
- At the other side of the room is another bus stop in front of the factory where the employer
will be and where the colleagues will take place
- The friends of Pisei’s husband are hanging around somewhere
• You will tell a story about a day of Pisei and when the participants hear that the situation of
Pisei is similar to their own situation, they will play their role accordingly. Let them use a bit of
fantasy but don’t make it too long
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