· Women’s Work: A Reckoning With Work and Home by Megan K Stack review – a domestic minefield A war reporter faces a battle closer to home when childcare poses questions about a woman’s work Author: Stephanie Merritt. “Megan Stack is willing to confront hard questions that many of us flinch from: about the relationships between women and the women we hire to take care of our houses and our children, to do the traditional women’s work that gives ‘liberated women’ the time to do traditional men’s work. Women’s Work is a book of vivid characters, engrossing stories, shrewd insights, and uncomfortable reflections.”/5(62). “Megan Stack is willing to confront hard questions that many of us flinch from: about the relationships between women and the women we hire to take care of our houses and our children, to do the traditional women’s work that gives ‘liberated women’ the time to do traditional men’s work. Women’s Work is a book of vivid characters, engrossing stories, shrewd insights, and uncomfortable reflections.”/5(66).
In a new book, Women's Work: A Reckoning With Work and Home, the journalist Megan Stack examines this dynamic from the inside, telling the story of her own employment of domestic workers, who. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege. 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. Megan K. Stack Confronts the Global Impact of Class, Privilege, and "Women's Work". As a foreign correspondent, Megan K. Stack spent 10 years chasing stories on war and terrorism through 22 countries. But as soon as she became pregnant in , everything changed: "Job, book, baby: I'd forced myself to choose the one I loved the least.
“Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home” by Megan K Stack Deatil from the cover of the UK edition A war correspondent and overseas bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Megan K Stack never had much occasion to concern herself with gender equality even when she married another foreign correspondent and the two moved to Beijing a decade ago. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege. Praise For Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home . Stack’s book is a memoir in three parts, tracing her experience of motherhood while living in China and India, and recounting the relationships she forms with the women who work in her home.
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