This is reflective of global trends, given women account for a disproportionate percentage of the world's garment workers.Of those surveyed by the researchers who had children, 80 per cent reported going without meals or otherwise reducing their food intake to make sure that their dependents had enough to eat.
Tens of thousands of factory workers in Cambodia have been put out of work since the start of the pandemic. Penelope Kyritsis, director of strategic research at the Worker Rights Consortium, said: "Several apparel companies cited by workers responding to the survey are owned by billionaires: including Bestseller, C&A, and Zara.""These companies, and the industry as a whole, are more than financially capable of ensuring that the workers who sew their clothes are able to feed their families.
The UN predicts that poverty will increase in Myanmar by 24 per cent as the result of the pandemic and has provided emergency cash grants for 80,000 garment workers.