Annual Development Lecture by the Department of Geography
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
No booking required
With speaker Professor Stephanie Barrientos,
The products you buy from supermarkets and retailers are sourced globally, mainly from developing countries. Global sourcing depends on hundreds of millions of workers. Many are women, but they face systemic gender discrimination.
This lecture asks: How are global retail value chains shaping gender patterns of work? What are the outcomes for workers? It examines comparative cases from agri-food and apparel in Africa and Asia. It draws on a book of the above title, soon to be published by Cambridge University Press (2019).
Women’s skills are critical in global retail value chains, but their contribution is under-valued. Capturing the gains from their work requires bargaining and contestation. Proactive governance is needed to promote gender-equitable value chains.
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Jasmine Gideon