{"product_id":"2940169212174","title":"Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realized 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 labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, medical and family crises. Hiring poor women had given Stack the ability to work while raising her children amp;mdash; but what ethical compromise had she made?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetermined to confront the truth, Stack traveled to her employees' homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the tradeoffs they'd been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobility amp;mdash; and on the cost to the children who were left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning memoir of four women and an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104379191536,"sku":"2940169212174","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169212174_p0.jpg?v=1763767688","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169212174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}