Women's work : a reckoning with home and help

The Resource Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
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Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
Title remainder
a reckoning with home and help
Statement of responsibility
Megan K. Stack
Title variation
  • Reckoning with home and help
  • Women's work
Title variation remainder
a reckoning with work and home
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Language
eng
Summary
When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made?
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
362.71/20954
Index
no index present
LC call number
HQ778.7.I4
LC item number
S73 2019
Literary form
non fiction

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