On the International Women’s day, not all Vietnamese women receive flowers, presents, or sweet words from their husbands or children. Many still work hard to earn a living.

For poor women, they don’t need flowers, they just have a simple dream to find a proper job and a stable income.

Defying traditional gender norms, they still do hard and dangerous jobs often associated with men.

Women picking up stones on the Truong Son Road project

Nguyen Thi Muoi Hai picks coconuts, a job usually reserved for men

16-year old girl carries bricks for VND60,000 a day

Le Thi Hong Hanh has been a bus driver in HCM City for 7 years

A woman in Quang Ngai collects rubbish to pay for her son\'s education

Dangerous job: using dynamite in a stone quarry

Catching fish in cold weather for next to nothing