This includes setting up of legal aid centres that assist in fighting workplace sexual harassment, the publication and distribution of newspapers, and the establishment of a women’s centre that provides legal education, medical assistance, small credit and skills training. This challenges the traditional definitions of labour issues or workplace politics (Baskin, 1991). When achieving leadership positions, women’s participation in trade unions tends to be limited to ‘women’s issues’ and women are excluded from participating in ‘hard core issues’ that require collective bargaining agreements with employers and governments.