Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED)
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14954
2024-03-29T06:20:14Z
2024-03-29T06:20:14Z
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.
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15709
2021-12-07T21:01:32Z
2021-11-07T00:00:00Z
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.
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
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
2021-11-07T00:00:00Z
Impacts of Coronavirus on non-member RMG factories in Bangladesh: a rapid survey jointly conducted by Brac University’s CED and JPGSPH
Rabbani, Atonu
Chowdhury, Fahim S.
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15706
2021-12-07T21:01:29Z
2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
Impacts of Coronavirus on non-member RMG factories in Bangladesh: a rapid survey jointly conducted by Brac University’s CED and JPGSPH
Rabbani, Atonu; Chowdhury, Fahim S.
This study, jointly undertaken by Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) project of Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) of Brac University and Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH) of BRAC University, is based on the survey on 555 export-oriented 3,342 factories from Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram districts, in Bangladesh. The factories were sampled from MiB’s database and contacted through phone calls. Addressing the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic period, findings from the survey suggest that the factories are gradually opening up which is depicted by the number of days they were operational, current employment status, current capacity utilization and orders in pipeline.
2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
Impacts of coronavirus on non-member RMG cactories in Bangladesh: a rapid survey jointly conducted by Brac University’s CED and JPGSPH
Rabbani, Atonu
Chowdhury, Fahim S.
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15649
2021-11-23T21:01:24Z
2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
Impacts of coronavirus on non-member RMG cactories in Bangladesh: a rapid survey jointly conducted by Brac University’s CED and JPGSPH
Rabbani, Atonu; Chowdhury, Fahim S.
This study, jointly undertaken by Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) project of Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) of Brac University and Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH) of BRAC University, is based on the survey on 555 export-oriented 3,342 factories from Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram districts, in Bangladesh. The factories were sampled from MiB’s database and contacted through phone calls. Addressing the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic period, findings from the survey suggest that the factories are gradually opening up which is depicted by the number of days they were operational, current employment status, current capacity utilization and orders in pipeline.
2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
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
http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15595
2021-11-02T21:01:28Z
2020-12-12T00:00:00Z
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
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).
2020-12-12T00:00:00Z