Domingo-Cabarrubias 79 figures reflect the statistics of NSCB (National Statistical Coordination Board) which show that services sector has more females than males, while the manufacturing sector has more males than females (29). Considering that the stereotypical images of women may be an underlying factor in the increase of women’s employment in call sectors, it may also be important for future research to examine whether BPO employment constitutes gender-responsive participation of women in the IT industry. Beneria (2003) also examined the impact of feminization of the labor force on traditions and gender constructions. Citing the cases of the Caribbean and some countries such as China, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines, she stated that expanding services associated with global markets tend to employ low skilled women in pink collar offices, for example for data entry and data processing in mail order business, airlines and rail systems, credit card providers, and other financial services like banking and insurance. She quoted Carla Freeman (2000), who wrote that the case of Barbados offshore clerical work resulted in “a convergence between realms of tradition and modernity, gender and class – where transnational capital and production, the Barbadian state, and young Afro-Caribbean women together fashion a new ‘classification’ of women worker who, gendered producer and consumer, is fully enmeshed in global and local, economic and cultural processes” (Freeman in Beneria 2003, 80). To be sure, Beneria was not the first to problematize the interconnections between gender relations and the global feminization of labor. The impact of globalization on the lives of working women has been a common subject of research in the past years (see for example, Illo and Pineda Ofreneo 2002; Pineda Ofreneo and David 2005; Lu 2008 and 2009). Lu (2008) has posited that the accommodation of women into the labor force in the new industrial organization was not sufficient to establish a better position for women in society. The new development led to an increase in the number of women in the labor force, but the impact on their quality of life and decision-making processes is still to be