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- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817191/62p-HOUR-s-women-sleeping-16-room-paid-make-Ed-Harriet-s-45-Feminist-Looks-Like-T-shirts.html
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29868458
- This is what a feminist looks like.
- These shirts are made in a sweat shop in Mauritius, an island nation 2,000km off the south east coast of Africa, by migrant women who sleep in cramped rooms where 16 of them share it in 8 bunk beds per room.
- They have made comments saying they dont feel like feminists, that they feel trapped and that they dont feel equal. The shirts cost £9 or about $11 to make and sell for £45 or about $72 but the women in these factories get paid about a dollar an hour for their labor, £72 per month or about $100. 6,000 rupees. It would take these women over 2 weeks of work to buy a single shirt.
- A female worker said:
- "How can this T-shirt be a symbol of feminism when we do not see ourselves as feminists? We see ourselves as trapped."
- Another said:
- "I have worked here for four years and I have not been able to see my son or husband in Bangladesh during all that time. We work very hard, sometimes 12 hour days, for not much money. I send all my money home and could not afford to fly back and see my family."
- The factories that make the shirts for The Fawcett Society, CMT, has an annual turnover of £125 million. It produces 40 million T-shirts a year for clients including Topshop, Next and Urban Outfitters.
- It employs 13,000 staff at its factories and about 4,500, all foreign, are housed on site. Migrants come from countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam.
- There are around 2,800 female machinists. Workers are expected to produce around 50 shirts a day and face discipline if they do not reach their target.
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- Hypocrites enforcing and contributing to ACTUAL oppression and wage gap of women while claiming to fight for equality for all women?
- Coffee shop and champagne democrats and liberal sjw’s more focused on feel good ideas rather than productive action?
- All in the safety of their 1st world country and home with all the rights one could dream for?
- While complaining about nonsensical and debunked myths like 1 in 5 women are raped and the wage gap and misinterpreted music lyrics and video games on their macbooks and ipads?
- Check check check and check.
- This is indeed what a feminist looks like lmao.
- What an honest shirt.
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