Performance of women with disability working at ready-made garment factories in BANGLADESH

Abstract

Purpose: Women with disabilities are much more disadvantaged when it comes to employment. They are sometimes neglected and less paid than normal worker or women without any disability for the same kind of activity. So, it is very important to find whether their work performance and productivity is less or equal in comparison with normal worker / women without any disabilities. Objectives: The aim of the study is to find out the differences in work related performance and efficiency of the women worker with disabilities and woman worker without any kinds of disability who are working in various ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh. Methodology: The study has been designed using a cross-sectional design. Result: Some of the indicators of performance measurement are significantly different in between woman worker with disability and woman worker without any kind of disability. Although, the statistical tests that were carried out in this study is only limited to the samples presented in the study. The significance tests and the results of this study doesn’t represent the whole population and cannot be generalised. The study revealed disabled workers face challenges to achieve target, performance and skill related issues. Conclusion: There are some similarity as well as noteworthy differences were found in the performance of women worker with disability in contrast with women worker without any kind of disability. The study assumes that more friendly work environment and policy level changes may help to improve the overall performance of the women with disabilities.