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Women Around the World: Marcelina Bautista · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about today, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: but we are back with our segments Women around the World,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, there's been a lot of news about strikes
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  Speaker 1: and unions being formed all around the country. All around
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  Speaker 1: the world, which has been really inspiring to see, and
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  Speaker 1: it's an exciting time to watch as employees and workers
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  Speaker 1: are coming together to demand better pay, better benefits, and
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  Speaker 1: a call to just overhaul a system that is based
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  Speaker 1: on results in dollars over the people in quality of
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  Speaker 1: work and quality of conditions. So it is really exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see and inspiring to see. So we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a woman who's been fighting to better work
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  Speaker 1: situations and right for domestic workers. Uh fifty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Marcellina Baptista, who has been a part of this
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  Speaker 1: activism in Mexico since she was seventeen years old, so
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  Speaker 1: she's been working though way before then and continues to
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  Speaker 1: be recognized for her hard work and passion. And just
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and let y'all know, we're getting most
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  Speaker 1: of this information and quotes from translated sites. Google Translator
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  Speaker 1: has been our friend, so it's obviously a little different
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  Speaker 1: from what she's actually saying or what the sites are
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  Speaker 1: actually saying when it comes to the Spanish translation versus
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  Speaker 1: the English translation, so bear with us, but we had
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate such an amazing woman. Bautista started working as
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  Speaker 1: a domestic worker in Mexico City at the age of fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: leaving behind her family and her education from her home
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  Speaker 1: area of Tierra Colorado Pascal, the na Chislon Wahaka area.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry if I messed that up, y'all. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: trying and I can't roll my rs, So don't hate me.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's skilled for sure. Um. She talked about her
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  Speaker 1: upbringing in the difficulties of just being a girl slash
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  Speaker 1: woman in her town, as well as when she left
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  Speaker 1: to start providing for herself. She was one of twelve
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  Speaker 1: children and helped with the care of her other siblings
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  Speaker 1: until she left. In interview with You and Women, she said,
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  Speaker 1: this violence towards the women I knew are my cousins,
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  Speaker 1: even though they are the customs, I did not like
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  Speaker 1: them because my mother was a reflection of that for me.
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  Speaker 1: One day I told my mother that it would not
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  Speaker 1: happen to me. And although this had consequences in my life,
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  Speaker 1: I decided my future thanks to those experiences that I
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  Speaker 1: experienced from a very young age, and she has. After
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  Speaker 1: twenty two years of working in the domestic field, she
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  Speaker 1: and a group of domestic workers formed a lat esperanza,
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  Speaker 1: or the hope to educate other women domestic workers about
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  Speaker 1: their rights as workers. But it was at the age
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  Speaker 1: of seventeen that she was able to learn about her
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  Speaker 1: rights and workers rights within her church community and she
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  Speaker 1: became confident in her voice to talk about her frustrations
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  Speaker 1: and difficulties in her job right. The same year last
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  Speaker 1: Ranzo was born, Batista was invited to represent Mexico in
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  Speaker 1: the first ever Latin American Domestic Workers Conference and Ago
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  Speaker 1: Talk Columbia, which included eleven other countries. So in nine
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  Speaker 1: after she was asked to join the staff meetings at Sinco's,
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  Speaker 1: which was a part of the u N Organizations, which
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  Speaker 1: where she was working on the maintenance staff. She was
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  Speaker 1: able to be a part of the actual staff and
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  Speaker 1: was able to grow in her leadership and her educational
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  Speaker 1: efforts after the fact, and it wasn't too much longer
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  Speaker 1: that she started the Center for Support and Training for
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  Speaker 1: Domestics Employees or the c a c H in two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: She quote has promoted the human and labor rights of
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  Speaker 1: domestic workers and carried out the unionization process of this
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  Speaker 1: labor sector, which was formed on August or the National
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  Speaker 1: Union of Domestic Workers, also known as s I n
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  Speaker 1: A C t r a h O Sinatra hole UH,
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  Speaker 1: the first National Union of domestic Workers in Mexico, and
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  Speaker 1: she has been working to continue to bring light to
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  Speaker 1: the difficulties as well as the mistreatment of so many
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  Speaker 1: domestic workers in Mexico and around the world. Only is
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  Speaker 1: she the founder and director of the c a c
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  Speaker 1: e H, but she also was General Secretariat of the
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  Speaker 1: Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers are Conloctrojo
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  Speaker 1: and the Regional Coordinator of the International Network of Domestic Workers,
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  Speaker 1: the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the International Federation
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  Speaker 1: of Domestic Workers f I t H as well. And
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we're getting these acronyms somewhat correct. Yeah, well, well
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  Speaker 1: they get to connect acronyms. We just don't know how
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  Speaker 1: people say them necessarily. There you go. The amount of
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  Speaker 1: work and continued fighting Bautista has been doing for domestic
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  Speaker 1: workers cannot be understated. And when she was asked what
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  Speaker 1: she felt was her contribution to society, she said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: make the invisible visible is the model of the organization
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  Speaker 1: that I preside over. I think that has been my
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  Speaker 1: contribution to make private work public today, make visible what
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  Speaker 1: we domestic workers do and our precarious situations, so that
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  Speaker 1: it is an issue that is on the public agenda,
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  Speaker 1: but above all be testimony of change that with what
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  Speaker 1: one has in hand, one can make a difference. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that I have also contributed to the development of
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  Speaker 1: the International Standard for Domestic Workers Convention one eight nine,
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  Speaker 1: and I asked that its ratification be the contribution of
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  Speaker 1: my Mexican government. Right, we'll talk about that in a bit.
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  Speaker 1: But she has, she has done all of this, and
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  Speaker 1: she's been working with governments, like she said, an organizations
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  Speaker 1: to create a change for domestic workers everywhere. She was
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  Speaker 1: involved in creating the Convention of one nine of the
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  Speaker 1: International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in two thousand eleven,
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  Speaker 1: which addressed the issues of domestic workers having quote decent
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  Speaker 1: work as well as the rights of workers, which was
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  Speaker 1: approved by that convention. And again, yeah, she's been pushing
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  Speaker 1: that forward in the government. And yes, she's been honored
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  Speaker 1: for her work, including accolades such as the Amelia Galanda
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  Speaker 1: Award from the Federal District Human Rights Commission for her
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  Speaker 1: outstanding work in defending and promoting women's rights and promoting
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  Speaker 1: gender quality in Mexico, and she also earned that same
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  Speaker 1: award in the Medal of Merit later. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: that eighteen. The first award was early two thousand's, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's definitely doing things. Oh yeah, also was awarded the
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  Speaker 1: Human Rights Award from the Friedrich Ebert Stiff Sung in Berlin, Germany,
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  Speaker 1: and the National Prize for Equality and Non Discrimination ordered
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  Speaker 1: by the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, and was recognized
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  Speaker 1: in the BBC as well as Forbes magazine for being
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  Speaker 1: just an overall powerhouse. Right, she has done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that she continues to pop up on list
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  Speaker 1: because of our organization and her hard work. Another quote
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  Speaker 1: she may specifically to the BBC, which she was named
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  Speaker 1: BBC one one. She said, quote, Changing the world means
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  Speaker 1: changing the conditions of millions of domestic workers, mostly women
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  Speaker 1: who work at home while others developed professionally. This social
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  Speaker 1: inequality it will only end when domestic workers gets the
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  Speaker 1: recognition it deserves. And absolutely um and we love to
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  Speaker 1: see it. We love to see people being change. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Mexico is a big hub for domestic work in general.
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  Speaker 1: So oh cheers and we salute you because you're doing
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  Speaker 1: some amazing things and can't wait to see how many
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  Speaker 1: more things come from her amazing work. Completely agreed and
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