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Women workers become valuable household members due to their significant contributions to the household pooled income. However, the incomes workers contribute to the household do not automatically translate into lesser housework and greater power in the household. In terms of social autonomy, workers alter their behaviors, but these are limited, that is, these will not cause censure from parents or community.","The findings of this research indicate that posing the debate on the effects of global assembly line work on the status of women workers in a marginalization vs. improvement thesis severely limits the analysis of the problem. By merely dichotomizing the effects, the framework fails to account for several changes that occur in women's lives upon involvement in industrial work. The data severely question the explanatory powers of this dichotomized perspective. 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