The difficult balance of New York’s female delivery workers in a predominantly male-dominated job
Immigrant riders face unique challenges as they try to juggle their family responsibilities with the demands of a risky job without any labor protections
The customer opened the door, received the delivery and scanned the body of the delivery woman Marleny Chumil, covered in layers of black clothing and a helmet that concealed her long hair. No matter how much he insisted, she refused to enter the house. Chumil thought of her three children, got out of the building and blocked that moment from her mind. She did not tell anyone about it. “What am I going to report? Sometimes as a migrant woman they do not take your word into account, you have no value,” says the 27-year-old Guatemalan resident of Brooklyn.
