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  • Sufferings in silence: Violence against female workers in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh: A qualitative exploration

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    Akhter, Sadika
    Rutherford, Shannon
    Chu, Cordia
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    Chu, Cordia M.
    Rutherford, Shannon
    Year published
    2019
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    Introduction: Despite the improved safety of the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh since 2013, other workplace health and safety issues in the ready-made garment industry continue, especially violence towards female workers. This article examines this violence as well as the social norms and attitudes of key stakeholders underpinning it. Methods: Data were collected in four ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions with female workers and key-informant interviews with different stakeholders, along with factory observations. Results: Findings were analysed ...
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    Introduction: Despite the improved safety of the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh since 2013, other workplace health and safety issues in the ready-made garment industry continue, especially violence towards female workers. This article examines this violence as well as the social norms and attitudes of key stakeholders underpinning it. Methods: Data were collected in four ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions with female workers and key-informant interviews with different stakeholders, along with factory observations. Results: Findings were analysed thematically. Female workers described personal experience of violence in the workplace: physical and verbal abuse, constant pressure, other personal restrictions and withholding of pay. They did not make complaints for fear of losing their jobs. Supervisors characterized the women as ‘disobedient,’ ‘uncooperative’ and ‘unwilling’ to work and viewed their behaviour as acceptable. Other stakeholders ignored these problems. Conclusion: Finally, this study suggests how the findings encourage action to prevent violence in the workplace in order to address the emerging occupational health problems in Bangladesh.
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    Journal Title
    Women's Health
    Volume
    15
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1745506519891302
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    © 2019 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License, which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
    Public Health and Health Services
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Obstetrics & Gynecology
    Bangladesh
    qualitative research
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397660
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