BW
29 Sept. 2020
BFC’s male leadership programme aims to transform how
both male and female Performance Improvement Consultative Committee
(PICC) members can inclusively participate to better represent the
workers and management in the factory improvement process, and how male
PICC members can create space to ensure women’s voice and
representation. Respecting and upholding the voice of all genders
creates fairer, more productive, and inclusive workplaces.
Story #1: Bun Veasna
Veasna like many Cambodians was raised in a traditional household, where housework was carried out by women, with men focusing on earning for the family. Even after marrying and having their daughter, Veasna who currently works as a line supervisor at a factory in Phnom Penh, still strongly believed in this system. He did not help his wife with the housework and would often spend his leisure time elsewhere. After attending Better Factories Cambodia’s Male Leadership Programme in late 2019, “I started to appreciate and value my wife in what she does for our home and started to share some of the responsibilities, I was very emotional and delighted that my wife mentioned that I am now a more caring and understanding husband.”
Being a line supervisor also means that Veasna supervises many female workers and he used to be blunt and offered discouraging feedback to them. Following the training, he has started to take the time to better communicate with his female supervisees, and he is aware of the importance of ensuring that men and women have equal job opportunities and has begun to take more of a coaching approach to giving feedback. “We as a team have improved our performance and communication, they mentioned that they are seeing me as a supportive supervisor rather than a supervisor who they used to fear.”
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