80% of workers in the garment industry are women.

Notes:

This doesn’t come from a report and there is no citation. Also cited in:

http://levistrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMPROVING-BUSINESS-PERFORMANCE-THROUGH-GENDER-EQUALITY_OCT-2017_FINAL.pdf which cites: https://betterwork.org/our-work/our-approach/

https://cleanclothes.org/fashions-problems

Primary Source:

Secondary Source:

2017 - http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/02/07/in-bangladesh-empowering-and-employing-women-in-the-garments-sector

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