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Why Are Workers’ Rights in the Garment Industry a Gender Discrimination Issue?
Summary by Amnesty International
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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…
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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