This report aims at identifyingwhether there is differences between work competency of male and female workers of “Mongla Cement Factory’’, Bangerhat. This study is based on a primary survey data of total 193 factory workers in where there are 11 workers are female. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the “Elephant Brand Cement Factory, Mongla”, sampling and survey procedure, describe of methodology and inferential statistics were used to identify the age and sex distribution of the factory workers, conditions of working time and overtime, discrimination among female and male workers on the basis of social status, payments of working hour and overtime works. The study suggests the number of female workers yet more less than male workers in cement factory, but there is no significant differences among the workers basis on socio-economic status, working hour and over-time work time and getting payments.

1. Welcome
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2. Woman’s competence in
work dynamics
Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder
Statistics Discipline, Khulna University
ID: 122002
3rd year, 2nd Term
Md. Sazedur Rahman
Statistics Discipline, Khulna University
ID: 122015
3rd year, 2nd Term
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3. Overview
Our aims were to identify whether there is any differences of the capability of working
among male and female worker’s of Mongla cement factory which is situated in
Bagerhat. Mongla cement factory is one of the most modern cement factory in
Bangladesh. This study is based on a primary survey data of total number of 193 factory
workers where there are 11 workers are female.
To analyze the data we considered the age and gender distribution of the factory worker,
condition of working time and overtime, discrimination among male and female worker
on the issue of social status, payments of working hours and overtime hour. Both
descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze and interpret the data.
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4. Objective
Primary Objective:
The primary objective is to compare working competency among female and male
workers on the basis of social status, conditions and payments of working hour and
overtime works.
Secondary Objective:
More specifically, this study entails the following aspects:
 To provide a brief overview of the workers of Mongla Cement Factory.
 Identify the age and gender distribution of the factory workers.
 To discover any problem of getting payments faced by worker for doing overtime.
 To find whether the factory follows the policy of Bangladesh labor law.
 To present our observation and suggestion to the factory.
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5. Key Factor
Worker
Worker is the one who participated either full-time activity or part-time in the activity of the
enterprise. The worker may serve the enterprise in any capacity-primary or supervisory. He or She
receives wages/salaries in return to his/her work; incidental to or connected with the entrepreneurial
activity.
Working hour
This means the period of time during which a worker have to work, and time off with pay instead of
overtime pay provided by an employer or organizations by a worker.
Standard working hours
It refers to the legislation to limit the working hours per day, per week or per month. By the labor law
of Bangladesh, work hour are set at eight hours per day, 48 hours a week, with one hour interval once
or half an hour interval twice per for 8 hours work a day, and a with weekly rest day
Overtime
Overtime means time actually worked beyond a prescribed threshold.
By the Labor law of Bangladesh, overtime work is maximum of two hours a day. The usual payment
for doing overtime twice the early rumination.
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6. Methodology
Methodology is the working procedure of the study that followed by the researcher to get the
target result when the sequential steps are followed to conduct our research work is known as
methodology. To accomplish our report we follow some which are given below:
Selection of
the Topic
Selection of
the Study
area
Sample
Selection
Question
Preparation
Data
collection
Analysis of
the data
Report
Preparation
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7. Analysis and interpretation
Age distribution:
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From Mongla Cement Factory we surveyed 193
worker. The minimum aged worker is 18 years
old who joined in the factory less than 1 year ago.
We can say that in this factory the authority don’t
recruit less than 18 year old people. Thus we can
conclude that there is no child labor.
Age interval of the
workers
Number of workers Percentage
Age 18 to 28 35 18.13
Age 29 to 38 57 29.53
Age 39 to 48 62 32.12
Age 49 to 58 34 17.62
Age 59 to 68 4 2.07
Age 69 to 78 1 0.52
Total 193 100

8. 8Analysis and interpretation
Worker working in this
factory for how many year?
Number of workers Percentage
Less than one year 9 4.66
1 to 5 year 67 34.72
6 to 10 year 47 24.35
More than 10 year 70 36.27
Total 193 100
The Mongla Cement Factory started around 18 year ago.
Out of the 193 worker 36.27% of worker are working in
this factory for more than 10 year. The following bar chart
shows a summarized information of the worker’s year of
working in this factory.
Working year summary:

9. 9Analysis and interpretation
Working hour per day:
Working hour per day Number of worker Percentage
Less Than 6 hours 5 2.59
6 to 8 hour 177 91.71
9 to 12 hour 7 3.63
More than 12 hour 4 2.07
Total 193 100
Here, we can see that out of 193 worker 5 of the
worker told us that they work less than 6 hour a day,
177 workers told us that they work 6 to 8 hour a day,
7 worker told that they work 9 to 12 hour a day and
the rest 4 worker told that they work 4 hour a day.

10. 10Analysis and interpretation
Over time status of the workers:
From this tabulated value we observe that most of
the worker in the Factory do overtime. Out of 193
worker 143 worker informed us that they do
overtime while the rest 50 don’t do overtime. The
percentage of the person does and doesn’t do
overtime is graphically given below.
Does the respondent do
overtime?
Number of
worker
Percentage of worker
Does Overtime 143 74.09
Does not do overtime 50 25.91
Total 193 100

11. 11Analysis and interpretation
Over time hour per day of the workers:
As we saw from the previous table that out of 193
worker 143 worker do overtime. Out of this 143
people 14.69% of worker do overtime less than 2
hour per day. 66 worker do 2 to 4 hour overtime
per day and 56 worker told that they do more the 4
hour overtime per day. The percentage of peoples
per hour overtime is shown by a bar chart.
Overtime per day Number of worker Percentage of worker
Less than 2 hour 21 14.69
2 to 4 hour 66 46.15
More than 4 hour 56 39.16
Total 143 100

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Analysis and interpretation
Information regarding payment of overtime
Out of these 143 worker 135 worker told us that
they get paid for doing overtime and only 8
worker told that they don’t get paid for doing
overtime. As we can see from the data that 94.41%
of worker told that they get paid for doing
overtime and by talking with the worker we are
informed that they get double of their usual per
hour salary for doing overtime per hour. Thus we
can ignore the 5.59% of worker who told that they
don’t get paid for doing overtime.
Does he get paid for
overtime
Number of worker Percentage
Yes 135 94.41
No 8 5.59
Total 143 100

13. 13Analysis and interpretation
Worker’s earning per month from doing overtime
Here, Out of 135 worker who do overtime 16
worker told that they get less than 1000 taka for
doing overtime. 59 worker claimed that they get
1000 to 3000 taka by doing overtime and the rest
60 worker told that they get more than 3000 taka
per month by doing overtime. These information
is summarized in the bar chart below.
How much does the
respondent get paid for
doing overtime?
Number of worker Percentage
Less than 1000 taka 16 11.85
1000 to 3000 taka 59 43.70
More than 3000 taka 60 44.44
Total 135 100

14. 14Analysis and interpretation
Male female worker percentage in Factory:
From the table we can see that in Mongla Cement
Factory out of 193 worker 182 are Male and only
11 are female. Thus the percentage of Male worker
is 94.30% and Female worker is 5.70%.
Gender Number of Worker Percentage of worker
Male 182 94.30%
Female 11 5.70%
Total 193 100%

15. 15Analysis and interpretation
Male female working hour:
This table is tabulated to see both male and female workers working hour per day. From the data we can
see that 2.75% of the male worker claimed that they work less than 6 hour a day where no female worker
claimed that they work less than 6 hour a day. 92.86% of male and 72.73% of female told that they work
6 to 8 hours a day. 3.30% of male and 9.09% of female worker claimed that they work more than 8 hours
a day.
From the tabulated values we can see that in Mongla cement factory both Male and Female worker work
same amount of hour per day. It can be said that male and female are equally active worker in the
factory.
Male Female
Working hour
per day
Number of
worker
Percentage Number of
worker
Percentage
Less than 6
hour
5 2.75 0 0
6 to 8 hour 169 92.86 8 72.73
9 to 12 hour 6 3.30 1 9.09
More than 12
hour
2 1.10 2 18.18
Total 182 100 11 100

16. 16Analysis and interpretation
Male female overtime status:
We saw from the previous table that male and female worker does fulfill the same amount of working
hour per day. In this table we can see that out of 182 male worker 74.73% does overtime and out of
11 female worker 63.64% of female worker does over time.
Male Female
Does the
respondent do
overtime?
Number of
worker
percentage Number of
worker
Percentage
Yes 136 74.73 7 63.64
No 46 25.27 4 36.36
Total 182 100 11 100

17. 17Analysis and interpretation
Testing whether male and female worker are significantly different active:
We want to know that whether Male and Female are equally active as a factory worker. To test that we
considered the variable which indicates whether the worker do overtime and gender. As we can see that
there is 182 male worker and 11 female worker we used Pearson chi-square test of proportion to test
whether male and female are equally active.
To test this we considered the P1 and P2 are the respective proportion of the male and female worker who
does over time. We consider the following hypothesis under 5% level of confidence.
H0: P1 = P2
H1: P1 ≠ P2
Now to check the hypothesis we consider the 2×2 contingency table. The analysis is done by STATA
software.

18. 18Analysis and interpretation
Testing whether male and female worker are significantly different active:
Does the respondent do overtime?
Gender of the respondent Yes No Total
Male 136 46 182
Female 7 4 11
Total 143 50 193
Pearson chi2 (1) = 0.6645 Pr = 0.415
Likelihood-ratio chi 2(1) = .6207 Pr = 0.431
Fisher’s exact = 0.480
1-sided Fisher's exact = 0.309
From the result we see that the P-value of Pearson chi-square test of proportion is 0.415. As
the P-value is greater than significance level .05 thus we may accept the null hypothesis that
P1=P2.
So from the test result we can draw inference that both male and female worker are equally
active.

19. Findings of the analysis
FROM THE ANALYSIS WE FOUND THAT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE WORKERS ARE
EQUALLY COMPETENCE IN WORKING. THIS WAS OUR MAIN FINDINGS OF THE STUDY. WE
ALSO FOUND SOME OTHER INFORMATION REGARDING OUR DATA. THOSE ARE GIVEN
BELOW.
 THE RATIO OF MALE AND FEMALE WORKER IN MONGLA CEMENT FACTORY IS VERY LOW.
 THERE IS NO CHILD LABOR IN THE FACTORY
 THE FACTORY FOLLOWS THE LABOR LAW OF WORKING HOUR IN BANGLADESH.
 THREE WORKER IN EVERY 4 WORKER DO OVERTIME IN THE FACTORY
 IF WE IGNORE THE DATA OF 5.59% IF WORKER THAN WE CAN SAY THAT THE WORKER GET EXTRA
SALARY FOR DOING OVERTIME.
 AROUND 36 PERCENT OF THE WORKER ARE WORKING IN THIS FACTORY FOR MORE THAN 10
YEARS.
 BY THE LABOR LAW OF BANGLADESH OVERTIME WORK IS MAXIMUM TWO HOURS PER DAY
WHERE IN THIS FACTORY WE OBSERVED THAT 85.31% WORKER TOLD THAT THEY WORK
OVERTIME FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS PER DAY. SO WE CAN SAY THAT THE FACTORY IGNORES
THE LABOR LAW OF BANGLADESH REGARDING OVERTIME.
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21. Thank You
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