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Women Make Up 80% of Workforce in the Garment Sector in Vietnam — A Better Work Programme for Them

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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, 29 March 2018  (ILO News)* – The Better Work programme  particularly benefits women, who in Vietnam make up 80 per cent of the workforce in the garment sector, one of the country’s largest industries. For many, the factory jobs are their first experience with formal employment.
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Duyen, Senior Production Manager, Binh Duong | Source: ILO News

Duyen is a senior production manager who supervises nearly 1,400 workers at a factory in Binh Duong, north of Ho Chi Minh City. Duyen started as a sewing worker 14 years ago, when she was just 21. Seeing her potential and work ethic, managers steadily promoted her, first to supervisor, then to deputy manager, manager and finally, to senior manager.

“Work hard and you will get acknowledged and rewarded,” she says.

Source: ILO News
Duyen is now learning Chinese, which she says she needs to communicate better with her senior bosses.

Better Work offers leadership and skills development for women as part of its training programme.

Nga, Sewing Worker, Binh Duong | Source: ILO News
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As a child, Nga lived in the central highlands region of Dak Lak, where her family grew coffee. When she was six, on the way home from the school, she fell and injured her legs.
She was treated at a local hospital, but an infection later led to complications, which affected her mobility and prospects for work. Fast-forward almost two decades, and Nga moved to Ho Chi Minh City where she enrolled in a sewing course.
After her studies, she landed a job in a large garment factory producing clothes for international brands. It was Nga’s first real job.

“At first, I was afraid that the factory would not want me because of my disability. But they accepted me.”

Source: ILO News

Tuyen works on a sewing line in a factory in Tay Ninh, North West of Ho Chi Minh City. She has been working there for two years, along with her husband, who works in the cutting section.
When she first started, Tuyen used to follow a few simple steps to sew sport clothes. But, as she became more skilled and the factory’s order volumes rose, she moved onto more intricate and complex items such as underwear. This was a challenge at first, and her output was far lower than her managers expected.

Tuyen approached her supervisors, who showed her new sewing techniques and also helped her to use more specialized machines for new products. With practice, her skills developed rapidly.

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Source: ILO News
She is now an expert at her new sewing technique. Her productivity of 750 pieces a day far exceeds the 400 she was producing just a few years ago. According to Tuyen, worker productivity depends on supervisor support.

“Learning by doing is always best for work like this,” she says.

The Better Work programme has decreased the gender pay gap by focusing on ensuring the correct payment of wages.

Hanh, Sewing Worker, Thai Binh | Source: ILO News

Hanh comes from a family of rice farmers in the coastal province of Thai Binh. While growing up, she felt farming was hard work with little reward. She decided to try her hand at factory work, knowing that the salary could support her young family.

Put to work on the sewing machines, Hanh was nervous and at first couldn’t make sense of the barcodes, labels and technical terms she encountered. But she adapted quickly and before long, started receiving awards from her factory for her efforts.

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Source: ILO News

Hanh is now a top performer in her factory. A skilled multi-tasker who can work across various sections, she often covers for colleagues when they are off sick. Hanh is also on the executive committee of the trade union.

“Training female supervisors can increase factory productivity by up to 22 per cent.”
Tufts University, Progress and Potential 2016

Hau, Sewing Worker, Hoa Binh

Hau hails from a rural village in the mountainous Hoa Binh province. Before she joined a leading garment factory, her family relied almost entirely on her husband’s salary from a brick factory. Times were hard. Knowing that few people from minority backgrounds get jobs outside farming, Hau – who comes from the Muong ethnic group – was apprehensive about working in a factory.

“At the beginning I did not know whether I could cope with a garment job; but now I am very happy with this work.”

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Hau reflects on her long and tough journey to where she is today. She had to adapt to new ways of thinking and working to succeed in the factory environment. Above all, though, Hau’s priority is her family. “The most important thing to me is to have a permanent job that allows me to take care of my children.”

“Quality jobs for women have knock-on development impacts including better health for workers and their family members and improved education for workers’ children.”
Tufts University, Progress and Potential 2016

*SOURCE: ILO News. Go to ORIGINAL.


Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2018/03/29/women-make-up-80-of-workforce-in-the-garment-sector-in-vietnam-a-better-work-programme-for-them/


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