Throughout the garment industry, unacceptable working conditions make an already difficult working day significantly worse. In many garment factories, harassment and violence are not uncommon. Violence is frequently threatened or used against workers, by supervisors, employers, the police, state security forces, strike breakers and others.
At a factory visited by the Clean Clothes Campaign in Lesotho, women workers reported being searched (by women supervisors) every day when leaving the factory. Some women were forced to take off their clothes to show that they were not stealing anything.
Women are also discriminated against if they plan to start, or already have, a family. In some garment factories, women applying for work are asked if they are married, going out with men, planning to have children, and using birth control. Some employers will only hire unmarried women with no children and some make each woman sign an agreement not to get pregnant as long as she works at the factory.
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