Women Workers for Change (WW4C) is an ongoing program that began in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. WW4C supports a feminist agenda for change, with a specific focus on low-wage women workers. We recognise that all women, including our members and partners, engage in both paid and unpaid work. Many women often take on multiple paid jobs to make ends meet. A significant portion of the work that women do falls outside the formal labour sector. In many countries, women are paid less than men for the same work.

WW4C focuses on three key strategies: Educate, Agitate, and Organise. The programme collaborates with organisations that have begun utilising these strategies to some degree or are committed to trying them. We believe that this programme will strengthen these groups by supporting their self-directed learning agendas, helping them recognise the connections between individual experiences of abuse and systemic discrimination, and encouraging them to plan their agendas for change.

The programme centres around the lived experiences of women workers, operating on the belief that individual experiential knowledge, when analysed in a peer context, leads to new insights. Consequently, the initiatives under this programme emphasise developing learning materials created by women workers themselves. Additionally, WW4C believes that regardless of the level of formal education, everyone should have the opportunity to learn, discuss, and debate various issues. WW4C will strive to meet the learning needs of women workers’ groups and respect their diverse learning styles.