Women working in global supply chains: are retailers trading away workers’ rights?

In today’s global economy, supermarkets and clothing stores are sourcing their products from farms and factories worldwide. Workers at the end of these supply chains – who pick and pack fruit, sew garments and cut flowers – are mostly women. Their work is fuelling valuable national export growth and could be providing the income to lift them and their families out of poverty. Instead, women workers are being denied their fair share of the benefits of globalisation.