TOKYO — As Bangladesh's garment factories, important foreign exchange earners for the South Asian nation, reopen after a major political earthquake, they face a critical problem: Women, long the backbone of the industry, are increasingly leaving for a variety of reasons. including factors impeding development.
According to a report last year by the Ethical Trading Initiative, a UK alliance of trade unions, NGOs and companies, only 1% of female workers leaving the Bangladesh Readymade Garment (RMG) sector in 2021 did so as supervisors.