This video, shared on social media, shows women’s widespread presence in farms. A citizen journalist reports an increase in Kurdish women’s presence in farms in Saqqez. He wrote for IranWire: “This summer in Saqqez, women’s presence in agricultural farms is more noticeable than in previous years. They work alongside men in harvesting chickpeas and weeding out unwanted plants; it’s a seasonal job, hard, and outside the framework of labor law. There is no talk of insurance or contracts, nor of the minimum wage and fixed working hours. What exists is long hours of work under the sun, and wages of which a significant portion is also spent on commuting costs. Although in the past men had a more prominent role in this work, according to workers, in recent years—at the same time as economic difficulties have intensified—more women have gone to the farms. They leave home at around 4 a.m. and work in chickpea farms between Bokan and Miandoab until the evening.”