Taaniya told Meem that if she earned enough, she wouldn’t have to get married and move away to live with some strange man who might like her, or might not.
Garment factories provide daughters with economic value that reduces the odds of them being sold married off early to random strangers, since they feed the family with their incomes instead of having to be supported.
Light manufacturing provides local entrepreneurs with capital they use to move on to bigger and better things. As they do so, the workers they employ move on up with them.
Well said.
Would the reporter prefer that Meem became a prostitute?