Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh

Garments Sectors are boosting in Bangladesh

The garment industry of Bangladesh has been the key export division and a main source of foreign exchange for the last 25 years. At present, the country generates about $5 billion worth of products each year by exporting garment. The industry provides employment to about 3 million workers of whom 90% are women. The ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh consists of many small to medium garment factories. In 2004, there were 3480 factories that employed 1.8 million workers of which 1.5 million were women.

Women are working in a ready-made garment industry

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The rapid growth of the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh has been facilitated by the following factors: cheap labor; lack of employment options for women; simple technology; small amount of capital required; and economic changes and policies that encouraged the growth of this particular industry. These factors are inter-related.

Women are the main part for ready-made garments

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The literature on the ready-made garments industry has described the problems faced by women workers the impact of employment in this industry on adolescence, health, fertility and marriage of garment workers sexual exploitation of workers and the impact of the industry on women’s position in society and in their families. The ready-made garments industry can be an agent of change by helping to reduce the social, political and economic exclusion faced by women in Bangladesh.