Time is money is a motto that these firms stick to strictly because they operate under two fundamental issues which are productivity and quality. They look for speed and women that can handle the pressure because they have deadlines and quota to meet each day. When one of the maquiladoras workers becomes pregnant that implies a loss to the firm productivity and money wise because pregnant women cannot produce at the same speed. As fat women as well are not wanted because they are believe to work slow because they cannot stand the heat and also produce at a low speed. Margarita, said that if they would have never change the hiring policy she would have never landed a job at the maquiladoras because she is a plump thirty-year old women. Fat and pregnant women pose a problem for the owners of these factories because they do not produce at the same level but, pregnant women pose more of a problem.
