And roses too: How “Better Work” facilitates gender empowerment in global supply chains
研究了孟加拉国、柬埔寨等五国服装业女性工人，发现国际劳工组织的“更好工作”计划虽受低工资和性别期望限制，但增强了女性对家庭收入分配的自主权，缓解了财务不稳定的负面影响。
Abstract Women's increasing entry into paid work has not been accompanied by a corresponding change in the gender division of unpaid labor in the household and community. Though women participate in the labor market, the expectation is that they will also take responsibility for the household. To what degree does women's waged work in the garment industry transform gender norms and dynamics in their home lives? To what extent do the choices they make translate to their household‐level empowerment? This practice‐focused article examines these questions by looking at data collected on gender dynamics at work and at home in the clothing industries of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Lesotho, and Vietnam. While women's empowerment through garment sector employment remains circumscribed by low wages, financial insecurity, and gendered expectations, we find that international interventions, namely the International Labor Organization's Better Work program, has expanded women's abilities to exert agency over their earnings within the context of household resource allocation and has decreased the negative effects of ongoing and systemic financial precarity.