According to The Guardian's investigation Spice Girls T-shirts were made at a factory in Bangladesh where women earned the equivalent of 35p an hour. These T-shirts were sold to raise money for Comic Relief’s “gender justice” campaign during shifts in which they claim to be verbally abused and harassed.
Bearing the message “#IWannaBeASpiceGirl”, these T-shirts were produced by mostly female machinists who were often called “daughters of prostitutes” by managers for not hitting targets and said how they were forced to work up to 16 hours a day.
Money raised from sales of the £19.40 T-shirts will be donated to Comic Relief’s fund to help “champion equality for women”. The charity is due to receive £11.60 for each of the T-shirts, which were commissioned and designed by the band, but said it has yet to be given any money.
The Spice Girls said the cause was important to them because “equality and the movement of people power have always been at the heart of the band”.
