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Women’s employment in the textile manufacturing sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco
Table 10a:
Child bearing by ever-married women workers and
Bangladeshi women in general
Age group Average number of children/ % of women/workers
worker/women
with no children
BDHS data Zohir and Afsar, Mitra et al., Zohir and Afsar,
Mitra et al., Majumdar, 1998b 1994 Majumdar, 1988b
1994 1996 1996
< 15 - 0.0 0.0 0 100.0 100.0
15-19 0.3 0.2 0.1 72.6 77.4 90.0
20-24 1.4 0.9 0.6 22.3 41.7 57.0
25-29 2.5 1.7 1.2 6.0 11.4 32.0
30-34 3.3 1.3 1.3 3.8 27.3 19.2
>35 4.7 2.7 2.2 1.9 14.3 12.5
All Ages 2.4 1.2 0.8 23.4 38.8 51.9
Source: Mitra et al., 1994; Chaudhury and Majumdar, 1993, 1996; and Afsar,
1998b.
Table 10b:
Number of living children of currently married women
workers and Bangladeshi women in general
Age group Mean number of children of % of women with no children
currently married women/worker
Bangladesh data Garment factory Bangladesh data Garment factory
(Mitra et al., 1994) worker (Mitra et al., 1994) worker
(Afsar, 1998b) (Afsar, 1998b)
15-19 0.6 1.0 44.5 90.2
20-24 1.6 1.3 10.5 60.0
25-29 2.6 1.7 3.5 35.9
30-34 3.5 1.8 2.7 25.0
35-39 4.3 2.7 1.7 25.0
40-44 5.2 2.5 0.7 0.0
All Ages 2.8 1.7 9.9 57.8
Source: Mitra et al.; 1994, and Afsar, 1998b.
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