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stances for women. It is highly recommended to support the tea case PO in establishing gender-sensitive policies and (most importantly) to put these policies into practice, e.g. establishing a gender committee, constructing bath rooms, offering gender-sensitive training. In the investigated SPO and CP cases, there were very few female farmers and accordingly, very few female members of Fairtrade-certified POs, as illustrated in charts 7 and 8 which show the ratio between female and male farmers who were interviewed for the surveys. This means that women only have an indirect opportunity of participating on the decision about business objectives of the PO, and Fairtrade premium spending.
Chart 7: Ratio male and female farmers, SPO and CP cases
Chart 8: Ratio female and male farmers, TG CG separated