Title Women's work : a reckoning with home and help / Megan K. Stack.

Publication Info.	New York : Doubleday, [2019]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	x, 336 pages ; 25 cm
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 desparately 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?
Subject	Stack, Megan K.
	Child care workers -- India.
	Child care workers -- China.
	Working mothers -- Biography.
	Americans -- India -- Biography.
	Americans -- China -- Biography.
	Nannies -- India.
	Nannies -- China.
	Women household employees -- India.
	Women household employees -- China.
	Stack, Megan K. (OCoLC)fst01793407
	Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
	Child care workers. (OCoLC)fst00854363
	Working mothers. (OCoLC)fst01180647
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Title	Reckoning with home and help
Other Form:	Online version: Stack, Megan K. Women's work. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2019] 9780385542104 (DLC) 2018038585
ISBN	9780385542098 (hardcover)
	0385542097 (hardcover)

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