{"id":277511,"date":"2019-05-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMibmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5wci5vcmcvc2VjdGlvbnMvZ29hdHNhbmRzb2RhLzIwMTkvMDUvMDUvNzE5OTg5NjMwL3doYXQtYS1taWR3aWZlLXdpc2hlcy1wZW9wbGUta25ldy1hYm91dC1oZXItam9i0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:20","slug":"npr-ethiopian-midwife-selamawit-lake-fenta-fought-for-pay-and-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277511","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Ethiopian midwife Selamawit Lake Fenta fought for pay and respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 NPR\u2019s Goats and Soda featured Selamawit Lake Fenta, named one of five midwife champions by the International Confederation of Midwives, who wanted more respect for her profession in Ethiopia and had already pushed on fair pay.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NPR: Ethiopian midwife Selamawit Lake Fenta fought for pay and respect\" \/>\n<p>She even talked about changing how the job is named in her country. Midwives catch lives in rooms without applause, then fight for wages while cabinets celebrate maternal-health targets.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s gender-parity cabinet photos never paid night-shift midwives. Labor dignity in clinics is a harder reform than a press release.<\/p>\n<p>As health\/labor reference, Fenta\u2019s voice keeps Ethiopian maternal care personal: skilled hands, low status, and a demand that the work be counted as skilled work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2019\/05\/05\/719989630\/what-a-midwife-wishes-people-knew-about-her-job\">NPR<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What A Midwife Wishes People Knew About Her Job&nbsp;&nbsp;NPRIn many countries, midwives get little respect. Selamawit Lake Fenta of Ethiopia tells why she is proud of her profession \u2014 and how she&#8217;s advancing rights for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1abZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602520,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277511\/revisions\/602520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}