The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB)
This article was published in the International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science [© 2021] and the definite version is available at : https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v10i7.1445. The Journal's website is at: http://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=4083
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10361-157092021-12-07T21:01:32Z The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) Sadril Shajahan, MD. Islam, Md. Faizul Choudhury, Afshana Ahmad, Faria Chowdhury, Fahim S. Ready Made Garments (RMG) Gender ratio Workers in Bangladesh Factory census Digital mapping JEL classification This article was published in the International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science [© 2021] and the definite version is available at : https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v10i7.1445. The Journal's website is at: http://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=4083 It has been widely acknowledged that female workers account for 80% of the Ready Made Garments (RMG) industry’s workforce in Bangladesh but a number of studies estimated different male to female workers’ ratios ranging from 35: 65 to 55:45. To contribute to such debate, this paper leverage the data of ‘Mapped in Bangladesh’ (MiB) project. While the objective of the MiB project is to enable transparency and accountability in the RMG sector by providing the industry stakeholders accurate, updated and authentic factory data collected through factory census method and published in a digital map; this paper aims to shed light on the male to female ratio of workers employed in the RMG factories of Bangladesh is not 20:80, but it is 42:58 according to the findings from MiB data. Presenting such data, the study seeks to discuss how factory issues can influence the gender composition of RMG Workers. These issues such as factory locations, factory type, factory size and production sections are important to understand the 2021-12-07T08:58:16Z 2021-12-07T08:58:16Z 2021-11-07 Article 21474478 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15709 https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v10i7.1445 en https://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijrbs/article/view/1445 application/pdf 3212 export-oriented garments factories from Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram International journal of research in business and social science |
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This article was published in the International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science [© 2021] and the definite version is available at : https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v10i7.1445. The Journal's website is at: http://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=4083 |
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Sadril Shajahan, MD. Islam, Md. Faizul Choudhury, Afshana Ahmad, Faria Chowdhury, Fahim S. |
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Sadril Shajahan, MD. Islam, Md. Faizul Choudhury, Afshana Ahmad, Faria Chowdhury, Fahim S. |
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The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) |
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The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) |
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The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) |
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The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) |
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The Ready Made Garments (RMG) workers’ gender ratio in Bangladesh: the case of Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) |
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ready made garments (rmg) workers’ gender ratio in bangladesh: the case of mapped in bangladesh (mib) |
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International journal of research in business and social science |
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