According to a recent report, the number of women workers in Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) industry continued to decline and stood at 54 per cent in 2021 even as among workers who left the garment industry in 2021, 51 per cent were women compared to that of 49 per cent in 2015.
This is as per reports which cited a report, titled ‘The declining women workers in the Bangladesh RMG industry’, which is part of a joint research conducted by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), GIZ and Brac University and funded by the Sustainable Textile Initiative: Together for Change (Stitch) and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
As per the report, caring for children was cited as the main reason for leaving the garment industry followed by pregnancy and discrimination for being pregnant, age appropriateness, difficulty in balancing work and home responsibilities along with challenges in working conditions including harassment, violence, long working hours and low salaries, etc.
