Working women of Ghandruk, Nepal

From the archive record

All the time that I spent in Nepal I noticed something so simple yet so surprising. Nepalese women are the ones who take charge of running the household. They work day in and day out in order to earn a life for themselves and their families. Here these ladies can be seen lifting heavy stones in a jute basket supported against their back from their head. They were doing this extensive work in bathroom slippers in muddy areas after the summer-monsoon hit Nepal. Other than these women, every homestay or business in Nepal is handled and run by the women of the house. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostl