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Women Workers Health:“HER” Project Case Study

  • Women workers have comprised at least half of the labor force in Chinese manufactures, especially in labor intense factories
  • Employee’s health is closely interrelated with factory’s output
  • There is a critical gap between the women workers’ health needs and their knowledge
  • No enterprise can afford to neglect the harmful effect of women workers’ weak reproductive health problem
  • HIV/AIDS is one of the most terrible threats the women workers face

While more and more women pour into the manufacturing and create great wealth, women staff’s significant place is getting obvious daily. In contrary to this, women workers often labor in environments where access to general and reproductive health information, as well as critical health services, is lacking.

Committing itself to creating a more just and sustainable global economy, BSR(Business for Social Responsibility) realized this problem and worked with David and Lucile Packard Foundation on factory-based women’s health programs named “HER” Project. Launching last year, “HER” is a peer awareness program aimed at learning current situation of women workers’ health and providing women’s general and reproductive health education and HIV/AIDS prevention training to women workers.

Now, we are pleased to share the achievement of “HER” project with you. Join us for a salon called “Women Workers’ Health”. Let’s show our concern to women workers and spread the health knowledge as much as possible.

Start Time: 
2008 Mar 25 - Tue - 14:00
End Time: 
2008 Mar 25 - Tue - 17:00
Venue: 

Guangzhou

Cost: 

RMB300/participant

Contents: 
BSR will share the HER project achievement and facilitate the group to have participatory discussion:
  • Why we care and what we can do to promote women’s health issue and HIV/AIDS protection
  • Introduction of Peer Education method
  • Survey conclusion and achievement of “HER Project”
  • Key success and remain challenges
  • Strong and compelling business case for this investment
Target Audience: 
  • Buyer / Brand representatives, Compliance officers
  • General Manager and Factory plant managers
  • Factory personnel responsible for compliance action plan implementation
Trainer/Facilitator: 

Ms.Qu Ning

Prof Qu Ning, Director, Training Project on Migrant Women Workers in the Pearl River Delta at the Guangdong Women's Professional Technical College in Guangzhou, China.

Prof. Qu, who also holds a position at the Center for Women’s Studies, is an expert on women’s general and reproductive health in China and has worked extensively with a number of buyers, including Disney, Levi Strauss and Nike, as well as with The Asia Foundation and the Levi Strauss Foundation.

Language: 
Mandarin
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