They are now subject to new influences. They see the power of the factory-owners, the cruel living and working conditions. Women meet hostile forces all around them, and must use their inner resources to deal with life. They are helped by the existence of hundreds of other young women in the factory. No one can calculate the effect this has upon their consciousness.
Women now prefer to labour in garment factories than to work as domestic servants.
They share their sorrows and little joys in the slums and shanties. There is no going back. Dhaka itself is both a monstrosity and a miracle. More than 10 million people live within 400 square miles. It is a distortion to insist upon the 'population' growth of Bangladesh, for that is to turn the people into a problem rather than see them as the immense resource they are.