BUSINESS

Empowering Bangladesh's female garment workers

Asia focus, Ruchira Tabassum Naved and Sadika Akhter in Dhaka, Published on 14/05/2018

» For four decades, the garment industry has powered Bangladesh's economy and put more people to work than any other sector. Women in particular have benefited from this hiring boom, and today, a majority of the industry's 4 million employees are female.