
In a year-long project published by Slate, Maria Hengeveld spoke to women workers at Nike factories who told her about conditions that violate many precepts of The Girl Effect: terrible child care options, ongoing humiliation by managers, and wages so low they can not meet their basic needs, let alone help break the cycle of poverty.
The voices of the women she spoke to — all of whom work or work for Nike-supplying factories — raise important questions about Nike’s investment in PR rather than in its workers.