Sneha Divakaran’s Reviews > Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China > Status Update

A China that the women who are employed in factories are discovering isn’t all that great for them as they hoped it would be. Dormitories, friend-circles, love lives, fashion, it’s all heady with its freedom from ritual and tradition. But it’s also disappointing because hope doesn’t change reality: men who are average, friendships that are fleeting, jobs that have thick glass ceilings.