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Blog series: Gender equity across supply chains

  • Cara Casey-Boyce
  • 17 January 2022
Photo credit: Claudia Janke.

Small steps, giant leaps and ‘knitting’

This series shares key highlights and learnings from the  programme ‘Gender Equity Across Supply Chains: a comparative analysis’ initiated by Women Working Worldwide and Banana Link in 2018, and joined a year later by Homeworkers Worldwide.

Our aim was for these examples of good practice to inform further work by companies, NGOs and Unions on improving the rights of women workers and producers. 

We hope that our stories will encourage you to think about how you too can take those small steps - or even giant leaps - and knit them together to help build a gender equal world, even in the face of global crises.

A lot has changed in the three years from this programme’s inception, we hope that our stories will encourage you to think about how you too can take those small steps - or even giant leaps - and knit them together to help build a gender equal world, even in the face of global crises. COVID-19 did not create these inequalities, but it certainly illuminated them, as did COP26 and its demand for climate justice, and we all have a part to play in helping to ensure equality becomes a reality.   

We will be sharing blogs twice a week from January to February 2022. 

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Gender Equity: Top tips from Kericho tea estates

Photo by Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR.
Women Working Worldwide's Caroline Downey kicks off our Gender Equality in Supply Chains series with an introduction to WWW's partnership with HWW & Banana Link and top tips from their first trip to Kericho's tea estates.
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Gender Equity: Top tips from Naivasha flower farms

Women Working Worldwide's Caroline Downey continues our Gender Equality in Supply Chains series with more top tips from Kenya, following a visit to Naivasha's flower farms.
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Gender Equity in Supply Chains: An enabling environment

Women worker holds banana harvesting sickle.
Banana Link's Holly Woodward Davey continues our Gender Equality in Supply Chains series with examples of how facilitating an enabling environment within the banana industry has and can drive progress towards gender equity.
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Gender Equity in Supply Chains: Representation

Women workers sort bananas into boxes.
Banana Link's Holly Woodward Davey continues our Gender Equality in Supply Chains series with examples of how women's representation within the banana industry has and can drive progress towards gender equity.
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Gender Equity in Supply Chains: Education

Male and female participants in a gender learning session, VP Flower Farm, Kenya
Women Working Worldwide's Caroline Downey continues our Gender Equality in Supply Chains series with examples of how different forms of education have and can drive progress towards gender equity.
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Putting homeworking on the Gender Agenda

India 2009 Homeworker
Homeworkers Worldwide's Lucy Brill emphasises the need for homeworking on the Gender Agenda if supply chains are to progress towards gender equity.
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Gender and Casualisation: the elephant in the room

Cambodia Garments
Homeworkers Worldwide's Lucy Brill details the risks women workers' face in the casualisation of work across global fashion supply chains, and share HWW's recommendations for redress.
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Gender Equity in Supply Chains: Future proofing

Gender picture
Caroline Downey, Lucy Brill and Holly Woodward Davey reflect on the gender gains made so far, the reality of gender equity efforts today and the steps needed to progress going forward.
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