I consider female EPZ workers as a non-homogenous group that has different characteristics in terms of their age, education, length of employment at the EPZ, and participa-tion in organizational activities. Their lived experiences at home, in their home villages and in the EPZ area, together with others’ images (socially constructed identities) of the KEPZ area and female EPZ workers, are all influential in creating, shaping and changing the women’s sense of place and self-identities.