Haseena Akhtar and the women in her family were among the women who led the process of making the beautiful, world-famous Kashmiri pashmina shawls.
According to experts, women made up 70% of the workforce involved in hand-weaving pashmina.
But the advent of weaving machines and falling wages over the past 30 years have forced these women out of the business and deprived them of their financial independence.
Today, one man is trying to reintegrate these women into the pashmina workforce.
