Sustainability of Female Workforce in the Ready-Made Garment Industries of Bangladesh

• DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsqa.20170305.11
• Publication Date: 2018-02-11T02:13:15Z
• Authors: Md. Iqbal Mahmud
• Keywords: Salary; Gender Discrimination; Employee empowerment

The Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) industries have emerged as the most promising sector in socio-economic context of Bangladesh. Among employee this sector, maximum numbers are female which prefaces women empowerment well. Despite being large numbers, workforce faces various types difficulty their workplace both physically and mentally. In addition, gender discrimination is severe sector. It was found that wages between male increases with skill levels. Male managers paid 21% higher than counterpart. Job type has great influence on workers. workers to be less helper sewing department by about 86% 78% respectively. Higher salary small larger one.