This type of job was really heavy, since all the women had to stay the whole day in the water with barefoot and curved back to remove the weeds that were growing in the fields and were disturbing the growth of rice seedlings. It was a very tiring job with real bad hygienic conditions, for this, in the rice fields of Molinella (a small Italian village) there were the first protests led by the women, in order to obtain better living conditions. With these protests they've been able to establish the rule of a maximum of 8 working hours in a day, and many others.