Women Wearing The Pants

06/21/2019

Heading to Kenya, for fairtrade coffee safari and explore the possibilities of an apparel factory😀

11/02/2017

Finished reading professor of ethics at Geortown Jon M. Kline and Sarah Adler-Milsteiens book SEWING HOPE
(How one factory challenges the apparel industry's sweatshops) found many holes in the story.
I myself tried to start a similar factory in Nicaragua, for WOMEN WEARING THE PANTS (MUJERES USANDO PANTOLONES) & THE FAIR AND FREE WORLD TRADING COMPANY the obstacles I faced were the free trade zones did not want me to upset the status quo by paying a living wage, causing other manufactures to up their wages. Which in truth is my goal.
The question is not will the female consumer be willing to pay 2.5% more for their apparel to give the 80% female workforce a living wage but will the "oligopscony" of the industry let it happen?
By my research the only way you can have a living wage factory in any developing country is by the local university in conjunction with US UNIVERSTIYS backing the program supply oversight of the endemic corruption inherent in apparel manufacturing.
The other book I recently read is of Journalist Ida Tarbell with the support of her editor John McClure exposed John Rockefeller for his illegal monopolistic business practices when forming Standard Oil.
To go forward I suggest a philanthrocapitalist purchase Alta Gracia ( and its contracts to supply university bookstores with logo enhanced apparel) for student business clubs. There by creating international business opportunities for students along with a watchdog organization Workers Rights Consortuim. Creating student exchange programs with the textile based universities of the world.
Thank you, for your interest, Ribert

08/07/2015

WE KNOW- 90% of a WOMAN'S income will go to her family.

WE KNOW- 80% of the workforce of the apparel industry are WOMEN.

WE KNOW- "Illegal and unethical activity is rampant in the textile and apparel world"

WE KNOW- 80% of the purchasing power of the "developed world" is held by WOMEN.

WHY-have we been allowing this labor abuse against WOMEN go on for over a century?

WOMEN of the develop world hold the POWER to change the labor abuse against WOMEN of the developing world!

"YOU'VE ALWAYS HAD THE POWER MY DEAR, YOU JUST HAD TO LEARN IT FOR YOURSELF."
-Glinda-
WIZARD OF OZ

WE KNOW WE CAN! DO IT RIGHT!

08/07/2015

I did my best for a

05/20/2015

"Strong ("Brave") Girls" Campaign can teach us women have to stand together (rich and poor; consumer and working poor) and you can never give up. You can't let your guard down or history will repeat itself. Let's change our future.

YES WE CAN! -Chavez / Obama

WE CAN DO IT! -Rosie the Riveter

YES, WE KNOW WE CAN DO IT RIGHT!!! -Women Wearing The Pants Inc.

01/26/2015

Why did I create these brand names? I don’t believe protest and boycotts will make much of a change. I think you need to lead a charge much like Safia Minney and People Tree are doing in U.K., Japan, India, and Bangladesh.
I could quote several women about equality: Sheryl Sandberg, Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton.
I could quote from documentaries and books for hours but they’re only words if we don’t act to make this change. I will give you one of my favorites:
“Those who hold power are not only responsible for what they do, but also what they do not do.”
(Hilary Swank as Alice Paul in “Iron Jawed Angels”
HBO Films
If the corrupt government of a country will not enforce reasonable labor and wage laws, that does not stop us from investing in their people and country and build a safe factory and give a fair wage to our employees. And if the local law wishes to obstruct our fair practices they can deal with the revolution. We North Americans have gone through the same pains (1911 Shirt Waist Factory) to change labor across our country.
Here are a few of many books I recommend reading: "Lean In" - Sheryl Sandberg; "Cotton Tenants" - James Agee; "Counting on Grace" - Elizabeth Winthrop; "Ida Tarbell" - Kathleen Brady; "The Best of What We Are" - John Brentlinger

01/15/2015

Are you an intelligent, socially conscious woman of power?
I am seeking an honest company, woman, foundation, university or entrepreneur to take the reins at Women Wearing the Pants, and wants to take this brand to the next level.

It’s really not that complicated. Pay a fair wage use organic materials that least impact our environment. Take the income from the sale of the product and return it to the developing country the garment was produced in. The income would go towards education, health, and environment. http://www.womenwearingthepants.org/wwtp/

11/07/2014

AGAIN, I have a special challenge. In an ad running in the New York Times on November 7, 2014, I am desperately seeking an HONEST company, powerful women, charitable foundation, university, social entrepreneur or celebrity to receive my GIFT of my company WOMEN WEARING THE PANTS Co.

The more I read about the garment industry, the more I realize it has been a conscious choice to ignore labor abuse and look the other way. Not only by the industry executive, but by all of us.

There are those that bury it, hide it, sugar coat it, and then there are those that purposely perpetrate labor abuse for their personal financial gain. Or the bottom line for the benefit of the stockholder.
We can change this.
http://www.womenwearingthepants.org/

06/12/2014

Some of my reading that is the major influence of the ideas for creating Women Wearing The Pants, Inc.

06/11/2014

"Yu Dan Wong, 46, said she filed a complaint in 2006 that the fashion manufacturer she worked for had paid her $450 for a six-day, 54-hour week, a wage that covered none of the required overtime. Her job was to check garment quality at about 30 factories in Brooklyn, Queens and Chinatown. “I kept calling until 2010,” she said. “I never heard.”

Were the workers in those factories paid minimum wage?

The question was translated for her by Wing Lam, the director of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association.

Both of them roared with laughter.

“Nobody!” Ms. Wong said."

Check out the full article below. This is slavery in our country.

www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/exhausted-workers-recall-minimal-efforts-to-enforce-a-minimum-wage-law.html

Complaints with the state Department of Labor about wage and hour violations were stacked 14,000 high at the end of July.