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You have Teladoc
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1002/aorn.12134
Subject(s) - citation , focus (optics) , psychology , medicine , computer science , world wide web , optics , physics
The Problem. There are close to 500,000 women working in the Maquiladora plants in Mexico manufacturing goods for export to the United States and other countries. Women make up sixty percent of the manufacturing workforce and many of them are between the ages of 14 and 24. These women often travel far away from their homes to find work in factories, leaving them without support networks and with heightened vulnerability to exploitation both inside and outside factory walls.