A woman in a strange place

Title	A woman in a strange place
Author(s)	Wae Win Khaing
Format	Life story
Anticipated length	1000 words
Synopsis	It is about a 30-year-old woman living in her husband’s village with challenges in her life with two little children, and how her life was culturally restrained. Her husband had troubles with alcohol and gambling. She worked several jobs to provide her children and also her husband by working at her sister-in-law’s fish processing business, sometimes by selling dried fish and seasonal vegetables. Although she had been living in the village for more than ten years, she was identified as a stranger by her peers. She worked as a processor by earning more than the average of her peers and still she was described as not being empowered. The life story is based on the interview with the woman in 2020 in Maubin Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar.