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Up one levelAspectos de género en la industria de indumentaria latinoamericana
La fuerza laboral de la industria de la vestimenta mundialestá altamente feminizada. La gran mayoría (aproximadamente un 85%) de los trabajadores empleados en este sector son mujeres. En general, la industria de la vestimenta es uno de los sectores con los salarios más bajos y ofrece malas condiciones de trabajo. Dentro del sector, también hay una clara segregación por género conforme a la cual las mujeres se encuentran en los trabajos que requieren menor nivel de calificación, los peor pagados y los más precarios. Cuando las tareas se vuelven más avanzadas o cuando se requiere ejercer la autoridad, se tiende a emplear a hombres. Como a menudo en la industria de la vestimenta es la mujer la que soporta las peores condiciones, es importante analizar porqué existe y persiste esta situación.
Captured by Cotton
Exploited Dalit girls produce garments in India for European and US markets
Gender aspects in the Latin American garment industry
The global garment industry labour force is highly feminised. The vast majority (about 85%1) of workers employed in this sector are women. In general, the garment industry is one of the lowest-paid sectors and offers poor working conditions. Within the sector there is also a clear gender segregation whereby women are mostly found in the lowest-skilled, lowest-paid and most precarious jobs. When tasks get more advanced or where the exercise of authority is required men tend to be employed. As it is often the women in the garment industry that endure the worst conditions it is important to analyse why this situation exists and persists.
Richer Bosses, Poorer Workers
The garment industry contributes 16.63% to the foreign earnings of India and it employs over 3.5 million workers. There are five different garment production hubs in India, all specialize in different types of garment production. Bangalore is one of the centres of production of garment and has somewhere around 1200 big, small and medium sized garment factories. Workers employed in this sector in Bangalore are nearly five hundred thousand.
Footloose Garment Investors in Southern and Eastern Africa
Several Southern and Eastern African countries, and especially Lesotho and Swaziland, have attracted foreign investment in garments as part of a strategy for economic development. While many donors and institutions, such as the World Bank and the OECD, praise the benefits of foreign investment for development, this paper looks at the impact of foreign direct investment in garments from the perspective of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
