What does gender-responsive chemical management actually look like in practice?
In the textile sector, chemical risks are still too often treated as gender-neutral. They are not.
From exposure pathways and PPE fit to data gaps and health outcomes, women and men can experience chemical risks differently. If those differences are not understood, prevention efforts will always fall short.
In our webinar, Toxic Threads: Examining Gendered Health Risks in the Textile Sector, we explored why this matters for the future of safer chemical management and why the industry needs to move beyond compliance-only thinking.
The conversation reinforced a clear message: effective chemical management starts upstream, with better input choices, stronger traceability, safer substitution and a more complete understanding of risk across the value chain.