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Table 16.1: Steps in gender analysis of garment <strong>chain</strong>s Step 1 Basic in<strong>for</strong>mation Tasks Gather basic in<strong>for</strong>mation about those you intend to study • Demographic data (e.g., age, sex, marital status, education level, training) • Labour <strong>for</strong>ce data (e.g., years in present job, previous experience, rate of pay, benefits, working conditions) • Roles in household, community, garment industry 2 Context Gather comparative in<strong>for</strong>mation: 3 Institutional assessment • Demographic and labour <strong>for</strong>ce data <strong>for</strong> country as a whole; • Demographic and labour <strong>for</strong>ce data <strong>for</strong> the garment industry in other producing countries. • Women’s and men’s roles in household, community, garment industry Gather in<strong>for</strong>mation about: • Rules: How things get done • Activities: What is done • Resources: What is used, what is produced • People: Who is in, who is out, who does what • Power: Who determines priorities and makes the rules 4 Application Use results of first three steps to answer questions such as the following: • What is the burden of work <strong>for</strong> women/men in this segment of the industry? • Do women/men have the resources required to work in this segment of the industry? What is lacking and why? • What are the material rewards and/or costs <strong>for</strong> women/men in this segment of the industry? • What are the intangible rewards and/or costs <strong>for</strong> women/men in this segment of the industry? • What are the prospects <strong>for</strong> advancement <strong>for</strong> women/men in this segment of the industry? • To what extent do women/men determine the priorities and/or make the rules governing this segment of the industry? • How do the positions of women/men in this industry compare with their positions in industry in general in this country? • How do the positions of women/men in this industry compare with their positions in the garment industry in other countries? Source: Adapted from Mikkelsen 1995, Kabeer and Subrahmanian 1996 91
The first step is to gather basic in<strong>for</strong>mation about those you intend to study. If you are doing a full <strong>chain</strong> analysis, you would include participants at each level of the <strong>chain</strong>. The basic in<strong>for</strong>mation is of three main types: • Demographic data such as sex, age, marital status, level of education, and level and type of training; • Labour <strong>for</strong>ce data, such as years in present job, previous experience, rate of pay, benefits, and working conditions; and • In<strong>for</strong>mation about their roles in the household, community, and garment industry. The first two groups of in<strong>for</strong>mation are basically quantitative. Some data may be available from company records. For outworkers, you may have to gather the in<strong>for</strong>mation yourself. Some of the ‘role’ in<strong>for</strong>mation may also be available in personnel records, but most likely you will have to get much of it through interviews with workers or knowledgeable individuals. The second step is to gather additional in<strong>for</strong>mation to enable you to make comparisons. You may want to compare workers in this industry with those in the country as a whole, or with garment workers elsewhere. To do this, you need data on those groups. In some countries, they may be available from labour <strong>for</strong>ce surveys or a government statistical data base. The third step is an institutional assessment. This aims at telling you how things are usually done. The fourth step is the application in which you use the results of the first three steps to answer the questions that prompted your gender analysis. To make this somewhat abstract explanation more concrete, we offer an example (see Table 16.2). The example is a hypothetical <strong>chain</strong> segment covering manufacturers in a developing country exporting men’s and boys’ shirts to the US market. The <strong>chain</strong> includes suppliers, producers, and various types of intermediaries, but <strong>for</strong> the sake of simplicity, the data in the figure are <strong>for</strong> producers only. 92
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