US EditionWhy Are Workers’ Rights in the Garment Industry a Gender Discrimination Issue?
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Why are workers’ rights in the garment industry a gender discrimination issue?
Most factory workers who produce garments for the fashion industry are women. Studies show that women constitute 60-80% of the global garment workforce. This means that when we talk about protecting human rights in the garment and fashion industry, we must also specifically consider the rights of women. Many of the issues facing garment workers, like low wages and precarious employment, disproportionately affect women. Gender discrimination is…
Why Garment Worker Rights Are a Gender Issue
Workers’ rights in the garment industry are the same as gender discrimination because women are 60-80% of the global workforce and still suffer I, exploitation, getting paid less, and violence. Women workers mostly in South Asia like India and Bangladesh live on very low wages, have non-guaranteed contracts, and are even harassed for being women...
The study, based on 88 interviews held between September 2023 and August 2024, denounced the denial of the right to unionization, exploitation of paid workers (mostly women), sexual and physical harassment, and discrimination.
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