'Women may resist certain forms of gender inequality, but in so doing they may simultaneously reproduce these structures. The state's discourse, shifting from a stress on women as productive workers to caring mothers in its new strategies of improving family quality, has unintentionally promoted an alienated image of women who have practical domestic knowledge as well as ample time to take care of the family. In other words, professional and middle-class urban women become more desirable than female migrants who work far from home and have no time for families. Indeed, garment workers' decision to remain in the city can be interpreted not as the refusal of society norms but as a failure in their efforts towards conformity.'
Nghiem Lien Huong (2004) Female Garment Workers: The New Young Volunteers in Vietnam's Modernization Link
Nghiem Lien Huong (2006) PhD Thesis: Work culture, gender and class in Vietnam: ethnographies of three garment workshops in Hanoi Link
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