How did women get stuck with the short straw?

Rebecca Carmen
5 min readAug 14, 2021

As the summer of 2020 rolled in, my sister got me a job at her boyfriend’s dad's vineyard. I was really excited as well I needed money to blow off, and what better way than to feel paranoia as spiders crept and crawled all over my hands as I plucked the vines in preparation for picking season. The sensation of their electric legs twitching all over my body and down my spine as I built up the courage to make my way down the row.

The job was disgusting, but the money made me hold on, that is for 2 whole weeks until my first paycheck came through. A whole…

--

--

Rebecca Carmen

hi everyone! welcome to my page:) my name is Bec and I am a 16 year old from rural Australia and just trying to make it to graduation.