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Women working on a daily basis in rice mill factories generally earn 80-100 taka ($1 to $1.20 dollars) per day. Lung disease is common as the dust and unhealthy environment causes many types of respiratory diseases. Millions of working women worldwide especially those in informal sectors are surviving in conditions of poverty and social exclusion. This grave situation affects the entire woman kind. Majority of them are discriminated, subjugated and deprived in a certain manner which makes them excluded from the society. Man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being… For him she is sex- absolute sex, no less. He is the subject, he is the Absolute- she is the other" (Simone de Beauvoir, 1952, pp. xviii, xxii). Women are always defined as 'other' rather than a human being in our patriarchal society. Their identity and status derive from categories of mothers, daughters and wives. They are thus defined not only in relation to men, but as dependent on men and subordinate to them. Globalization affects heavily on traditional nature of employment, working condition, and industrial relations. Because of globalization, free market economy introduces many things which result into unbalanced economic and industrial reforms, further affect job security and social protection of workers.

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