Topics Gender equality

Gender differences in the wage digitization experience

This blog post presents findings from interviews conducted over the phone with a pool of 894 workers employed in factories spread across the five main industrial areas of Bangladesh (Chittagong, Dhaka City, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar) who reported being paid…

Accelerating women’s financial inclusion in Bangladesh’s garment sector

This brief describes the results of a joint IFC and Bangladesh Bank initiative that developed the business case for electronic wage payments in Bangladesh’s garment sector to increase women’s financial inclusion.

Digital wages: Positive impact for women and business

This report evidences HERfinance Digital Wages Programme’s benefits for factories and workers via increased efficiency, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment. It uses two data sources: HERfinance Digital Wages survey data collected from 64 factories through 4,076 baseline surveys and…

Digital wages and what it means for women

This blog post considers the importance of wage digitization for women’s financial inclusion and raises questions for discussion at BRAC’s Frugal Innovation Forum.

Garment workers’ financial behaviors during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons learned from factories in Bangladesh, Egypt, and India

In July and August 2020, as part of the HERfinance program, with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Levi Strauss Foundation, HERproject surveyed 700 workers (57 percent of whom were female), who received HERfinance training from…

HERfinance Posters

HERproject has developed a set of six posters messages for workers based around the six digital wages modules to be displayed around the workplace

Empowering women through direct digital wage payments

India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article discusses findings from a large-scale experiment in collaboration…

Financial behavior of female garment workers in India

This quantitative research by MSC, commissioned by BSR, analyzed the financial behavior of female garment workers in India as part of efforts to improve wage digitization processes and methodology.

How technology can take financial inclusion training further and deeper

This blog explains how the HERfinance Digital Wages Tech Learning Tool incorporates technology to make learning and training more engaging for workers. It also discusses how technology can play a role in bridging the digital gender divide and giving women…

HERfinance Digital Wages: Small investment, big impact

The HERfinance Digital Wages program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works with global brands and their suppliers to help factories transition from cash salary payments to digital wages. This video follows three women during the process and…