孟加拉服装部门的女性工人提高了5%的效率

Female workers boost efficiency by 5% in Bangla RMG sector
Female supervisors have boosted efficiency by five per cent in the garment sector in Bangladesh, says an initiative by Better Work Bangladesh. The Gender Equality and Returns (GEAR) initiaitve jointly implemented by International Labour Organisation and International Finance Corporation promoted more women in supervisory roles in the garment sector.
Rolled out in 2016, the programme has made significant strides in advancing women’s economic potential and improving access to better jobs and opportunities for women.
“I would slowly but surely like to rise from my current position as a supervisor to a line-chief, then an assistant production manager and finally become a production manager,” said Popy Aktar, a GEAR-trained supervisor who works for Sparrow Apparels Ltd in Gazipur.
Despite 80 per cent of line-operators in the sewing sections of the garment sector being women, 19 out of 20 line-supervisors are male. This means 90 per cent of the managerial talent in factories comes from just 20 per cent of the workforce, ILO said in a press release.
To date, GEAR has trained 144 female workers; 58 of whom are now in supervisory roles. Impact assessment shows that lines led by GEAR-trained females experienced an average increase of 5 per cent in efficiency. The GEAR-promoted female supervisors also saw - on average - a 39 per cent increase in salary. After a successful pilot, Better Work is scaling up GEAR to train 700 female operators and their managers in 70 factories to promote career-progression opportunities for women in the RMG sector, the release added.
"Canada is advancing gender equality worldwide through Canada’s Feminist International AssistancePolicy. It is not just about hiring or buying from women. It's about recognising talent, capabilities, and value that is too often disregarded due to gender bias," said Benoit Préfontaine, high commissioner of Canada.
“Gender equality and gender empowerment was one of the core founding principles of the ILO in 1919. 100 years on and this is still central to our work. But much more needs to be done in advancing gender diversity - not just in the RMG sector but in every sector,” Tuomo Poutiainen,countrydirector, ILO Bangladesh, said.
"Increasing efficiency and broad-based employment is a key part of competitiveness for the RMG sector. There is a strong business case to having more females in leadership positions. Through the GEAR program, we hope to actively work on increasing career-progression opportunities and promotion of women and addressing the gender imbalances in leadership roles in the garment sector," Nuzhat Anwar, acting country manager, IFC, said.
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孟加拉服装部门的女性工人提高了5%的效率
孟加拉国改善工作组织发起的一项倡议称，孟加拉国服装业的女性监察人将效率提高了5%。由国际劳工组织和国际金融公司联合实施的性别平等与回报(GEAR)倡议，促进了更多女性在服装行业担任监管角色。
该项目于2016年推出，在提高妇女经济潜力、改善妇女获得更好工作和机会方面取得了重大进展。
“我想慢慢地从现在的主管晋升到生产线主管，然后是助理生产经理，最后成为一名生产经理，”在加济布尔斯派洛服装有限公司工作，受过GEAR培训的主管波比阿克塔尔说。
尽管服装行业缝纫部门操作人员80%是女性，但20名操作主管中有19名是男性。国际劳工组织在一份新闻稿中表示，这意味着工厂90%的管理人才仅20%来自劳动力。
迄今为止，GEAR已培训了144名女工，其中58人现在担任主管职务。影响评估显示，受过GEAR培训的女性领导的队伍效率平均提高了5%。平均而言，升职幅度较大的女性主管的薪资也增加了39%。在成功试点之后，更好的工作正在加大力度，在70家工厂培训700名女性操作员及其经理，为服装行业的女性提供职业发展机会。
“加拿大通过其女权主义国际援助政策在世界范围内推进性别平等。这不仅仅是雇佣或从女性购买。加拿大高级专员贝诺伊特•普雷方丹表示：“这是对人才、能力和价值的认可，而这些往往因性别偏见而被忽视。”
“性别平等和赋予性别权力是劳工组织1919年的核心创始原则之一。100年过去了，这仍然是我们工作的核心。但在促进性别多样性方面，需要做的还有很多——不仅是在服装部门，而是在每个部门，”国际劳工组织孟加拉国家主任Tuomo Poutiainen说。
“提高效率和广泛的就业是服装部门竞争力的关键部分。让更多女性担任领导职位有很强的商业理由。通过GEAR项目，我们希望积极努力，增加职业发展机会，提升女性地位，解决服装行业领导角色中的性别失衡问题，”国际金融公司代理国经理努扎特•安瓦尔表示。