In #Jordan, only 14% of women are employed. Increasing female workers required innovative approaches including a government incentive to create satellite garment factories in rural areas. Now, 90% of the workforce in these factories are women. How the government of Jordan and Better Work – a partnership with the International Labour Organization and the IFC – International finance Corporation – helped create job opportunities for female workers, improve productivity and working conditions in these factories: http://wrld.bg/hPaL30hHv9y
Satellite factories create more jobs for women in rural Jordan
By Michelle Davis
