Food systems, gender and challenges faced by Dhaka’s textile workers

The textile industry is an important source of revenue and employment in Bangladesh, where an estimated 60% of the approximately 4 million people who work in it are women. The millions of young women who migrate from rural areas to Dhaka to work in the garment factories of its peri-urban area move there to earn more than they can at home, but that migration implies adapting to an urban space that is highly unequal, gendered and otherwise challenging.