Labor rights activists in Pakistan are urging the country's brick kiln industry to change the pay system so that women laborers are paid directly, instead of their wages going to the male heads of their families...The activists say thousands of women producing bricks in Pakistan are not being paid directly, and the industry has no record of these workers, their work or earnings...Asma Jahangir, a veteran human rights activist and former head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said...There are several reasons for this ongoing discrimination. The system of debt-bonded labor, family norms, patriarchal attitudes and illiteracy are the main causes of the exploitation of women workers. Brick kiln owners concede that registers only list men's names.