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Large-Scale Layoffs of Women Hit Bangladesh Garment Industry

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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Large-scale sacking of women has taken place in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry, which was one of the world’s most celebrated stories of female economic empowerment, pulling millions of women into paid work and reshaping families, villages and the national economy, according a report in the Dhaka-based The Daily Star.Women made up roughly 80 per cent of Bangladesh’s garment workforce between 1980 and 1994, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufac…