Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)

While it has been widely acknowledged that female workers account for 80% of the garments industry’s workforce in Bangladesh, there are also a number of studies and surveys that marked that have estimated different male to female workers’ ratios ranging from 35: 65 to 55:45. This paper aims to contr...

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Main Authors: Shajahan, Sadril, Islam, MD. Faizul, Chowdhury, Fahim S, Ahmad, Faria
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Idioma:English
Publicado em: Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Brac University 2021
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spelling 10361-155952021-11-02T21:01:28Z Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) Shajahan, Sadril Islam, MD. Faizul Chowdhury, Fahim S Ahmad, Faria Gender Digital map Labor studies Ready Made Garments (RMG) Apparel sector SDG goal 8- decent work While it has been widely acknowledged that female workers account for 80% of the garments industry’s workforce in Bangladesh, there are also a number of studies and surveys that marked that have estimated different male to female workers’ ratios ranging from 35: 65 to 55:45. This paper aims to contribute to such debate by analyzing data of workers’ gender composition collected by the project ‘Mapped in Bangladesh’ (MiB). 2021-11-02T10:31:38Z 2021-11-02T10:31:38Z 2020-12-12 Other http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15595 en application/pdf Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Brac University
institution Brac University
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topic Gender
Digital map
Labor studies
Ready Made Garments (RMG)
Apparel sector
SDG goal 8- decent work
spellingShingle Gender
Digital map
Labor studies
Ready Made Garments (RMG)
Apparel sector
SDG goal 8- decent work
Shajahan, Sadril
Islam, MD. Faizul
Chowdhury, Fahim S
Ahmad, Faria
Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
description While it has been widely acknowledged that female workers account for 80% of the garments industry’s workforce in Bangladesh, there are also a number of studies and surveys that marked that have estimated different male to female workers’ ratios ranging from 35: 65 to 55:45. This paper aims to contribute to such debate by analyzing data of workers’ gender composition collected by the project ‘Mapped in Bangladesh’ (MiB).
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author Shajahan, Sadril
Islam, MD. Faizul
Chowdhury, Fahim S
Ahmad, Faria
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Islam, MD. Faizul
Chowdhury, Fahim S
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title Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
title_short Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
title_full Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
title_fullStr Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
title_full_unstemmed Demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented RMG Factories in Bangladesh: Perspective from Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
title_sort demystifying the workers’ ratio of export oriented rmg factories in bangladesh: perspective from mapped in bangladesh (mib)
publisher Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Brac University
publishDate 2021
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