Working women in front line of slowdown

2009/07/29 20:33:12 @Reuters: International News

BANGKOK (Reuters) - When a major swimwear factory in Bangkok found its sales plummeting in the downturn, it laid off some 1,900 workers, almost all of them women. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kz5T3KwAJtA:tKf6WS3vVGA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kz5T3KwAJtA:tKf6WS3vVGA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=kz5T3KwAJtA:tKf6WS3vVGA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kz5T3KwAJtA:tKf6WS3vVGA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=kz5T3KwAJtA:tKf6WS3vVGA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/kz5T3KwAJtA" height="1" width="1"/
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