Women's Work by Megan Stack


ISBN
9781925849073
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Dimensions
154 x 232mm

When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and to work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realised that childcare and housework would consume 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 labour. 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, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home, and she grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives- domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies, and medical and family crises. Hiring poor women had given Stack the ability to work while raising her children - but what ethical compromises had she made?Determined to confront the truth, Stack travelled to her employees? homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the trade-offs they?d been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobility - and on the cost to the children who were left behind.Women?s Work is a stunning memoir of four women and an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.
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