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Maquila Work As Empowerment - Paper

Maquila Work As Empowerment

The introduction of a Maquiladora into a newly developing country
has many effects on the people who live there, especially women. It is a
common misconception that all the effects are bad.
A woman who works in a maquiladora to support her family certainly
does not feel that the Maquila's coming is a harmful thing, without the
work provided in the factory, her family would not be able to survive.
Perhaps her husband's work is not enough to support her family or maybe
there is no husband, but there are kids, hungry ones. To a woman in this
situation, the coming of these companies to her towns is a godsend.

Another benefit of the Maqiulas is that having a job can also
empower women. The ...

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these jobs may seem
undesirable ,even terrible to most it is still bringing women into the work
force and giving them means to be more independent , which is a form of
empowerment, however small an improvement it may seem. It entices these
young girls to strive for more. They no longer want to work in the home,
they want to go into the factories like their mothers and be more
independent. I feel that, that kind of employment is a gateway for even
more women's empowerment, because it exposes them to different kinds of
life styles. Or, this can also compel them to strive for even more, having
seen how their mothers have struggled to support a family on such a meager
wage.

I do not feel that working in these factories oppresses women,
because without these job women would be even more oppressed overall.
Without factory work, third world women would not be able to support their
families. Also they would have no exposure to thing outside of their own
existence. It is true that ...

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Added: 7/22/2007 05:22:42 AM
Category: Economics
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 678
Pages: 3

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