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Women’s employment in the textile manufacturing sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco (WASA) in those areas in the city proper. 14. The issues dealt with in this section as well as the following section are treated in greater detail in Afsar, 2000a. 15. This discussion is based on Afsar, 2000a. 16. Wide-bodied auto-rickshaw which can accommodate about 10 to 15 persons at a time. Although highly polluting, it is one of the cheapest and fastest modes of intra-city group transportation. 17. In Kalapani area, a young girl was kidnapped by the mastaans while coming home alone at around 10 o’clock at night. Next morning, they left her in the same place after raping her. She was badly injured and was under treatment for some time. After her recovery, she felt too embarrassed to work in the same garment factory and live in the same area. Hence, she left the factory and the area. They also cited another rape case in Madhya Badda, the eastern fringe of Dhaka city. 18. From her latest survey, the author found that one in every five garment factory workers, irrespective of gender, knew about a STD affected co-worker 19. This finding is consistent with Rahman’s (1993:103) results. 146
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