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EQUALITY FOR THE BETTER FUTURE

Gender

parity

&

coffee

F or nearly two decades the coffee dustry is historically a male dominated one.
Like a lot of industries, the coffee in-
industry has engaged in efforts
to address the imperative of pro-
ducing and sourcing quality This is not to say that women don’t play a
major role because in producing countries,
coffee that meets environmental, women make up around 70% of the labor
social and economic criteria. Placing sustain- force. Unfortunately, the roles they occupy
ability as a core element of our supply chain do not involve decision making or dealing
strategies has dramatically impacted the coffee with the finances.
industry. And now more and more we are This runs deep into the core of our
facing a different critical element: women’s societies and traditions and only common
empowerment and gender equity. The distri- effort can solve the issue not only for better
bution of labor into gender-stereotyped roles coffee, but also for better future. We talked
leads to a lack of earning power and control with four inspiring coffee women to see their
over income for women. perspectives on the matter.

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