The ILO is pleased to share the online version of its recently published report on gender equality in the Myanmar garment industry.
“We found that human resources managers admit they prefer to employ women. Managers tend to draw on assumptions about innate gender characteristics whereby women are seen as more docile and naturally more capable of completing work tasks that require attention to detail, such as sewing,” explains Dean Laplonge, the author of the research.
Weaving Gender is the result of many months of meticulous research inside factories and in stakeholder forums where preliminary findings of the gender assessment were discussed.
The online version is available here.