A Man's Job

Seeing these two girls with their spindles and balls of yarn, going their merry way on a steep path of Lake Titicaca’s Taquile Island, you might think they are among the Peruvian girls and women who create the kind of high-quality handicraft I’ve already told you about.

But on Taquile, women are only allowed to make yarn and weave. Knitting is strictly reserved to males.

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