as a woman can know i can't and women can't do men's work they can't climb up on to trucks and they can't recognize quality projects. here in eastern turkey we men don't generally think women shouldn't work it's up to mender and the money and it's up to women to look after the household. fatma does both she gets up at five in the morning when her three daughters are still in bed they live in a one bedroom apartment it's the best fatima can afford but it's an improvement on her previous life her ex-husband lives in another town she still worries that he could show up on her doorstep. convincing the eventually i stopped being afraid that he would hit me the worst bit was when he took his anger out on the children and there were times when that crawl into a corner and actually trembled with fear eventually i'd had it i knew we couldn't