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As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture.Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restrictions of segregation. Sharpless also shows how these women's employment served as a bridge from old labor arrangements to new ones. As opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions.Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, this book evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home. Sharpless looks beyond stereotypes to introduce the real women who left their own houses and families each morning to cook in other women's kitchens.

\"Women in the Museum explores the professional lives of the sector's female workforce.\"--Provided by publisher.

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.

What will it take for us to create a more equal workplace where women too can shine? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender in the workplace, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where workplace gender equality is today--and how far we have to go. This book will inspire you to: - Understand the root causes of the barriers that exist around gender in the workplace - Check your own biases and discern between confidence and competence in your colleagues - Manage a more effective gender diversity program - Explore what it means to be a feminist today - Understand the issues that women face when speaking up about bias or harassment in the workplace - Better understand the path that women must take to leadership-- Provided by publisher

This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as \"ideal, traditional Japanese brides.\"Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a \"zone of encounters,\" showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.

What will it take for us to create a more equal workplace where women too can shine? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender in the workplace, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where workplace gender equality is today--and how far we have to go. This book will inspire you to: - Understand the root causes of the barriers that exist around gender in the workplace - Check your own biases and discern between confidence and competence in your colleagues - Manage a more effective gender diversity program - Explore what it means to be a feminist today - Understand the issues that women face when speaking up about bias or harassment in the workplace - Better understand the path that women must take to leadership-- Provided by publisher

Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide,Unprotected Laborassesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.May argues that working-class women sought to define the middle-class home as a workplace even as employers and reformers regarded the home as private space. The result was that labor reformers left domestic workers out of labor protections that covered other women workers in New York between the late nineteenth century and the New Deal. By recovering the history of domestic workers as activists in the debate over labor legislation, May challenges depictions of domestics as passive workers and reformers as selfless advocates of working women.Unprotected Laborilluminates how the domestic-service debate turned the middle-class home inside out, making private problems public and bringing concerns like labor conflict and government regulation into the middle-class home.

Annotation \"Women Leaders at Worktraces the personal life decisions taken by women who found ways to achieve greatness in their work. Each story is intriguing. But, collectively, the stories provide inspiration. They illustrate how real women of varied talents from varied backgrounds traversed quite different paths, seized opportunities presented in many guises, and found ways to achieve and to contribute to society. Elizabeth Ghaffari relates these stories with an unerring instinct to reveal the fascinating, personal dimensions of real women.\"Anita K. Jones, University Professor Emerita, University of Virginia\"Women Leaders at Workshines a light on women. Today's leaders who are women, who are changing our world, even as examples, inspire young women who are our leaders of the future. Great book!\"Frances Hesselbein, President s book rises to the top for me. The in-depth interviews provide insight into leadership in general, issues unique to women, as well as an insiders view into a broad array of industries. Women Leaders at Workhighlights superb women leaders, beyond the \"usual suspects,\" many of whom you may never have otherwise come to know.\"Cathy Sandeen, Ph. D., MBA, Dean, UCLA Extension, University of California, Los Angeles\"In her newest book, Elizabeth Ghaffari has scouted out exceptional women who started in small, but courageous ways to follow unique visions. These women achieved positions of influence and power, but their routes to success were never straight-lined. They endured digressions and embraced change. They navigated the intricacies of corporations, academia, non-profits, and the fields of science and technology. They speak with their own voices about their lives and motivation and tell their stories with modesty and encouragement to other women who may want to lead and serve.\"Mary S. Metz, Ph. D., President Emerita, Mills College\"Women Leaders at Workis filled from cover-to-cover with stories about the lives of extraordinary women who are in leadership today. Elizabeth Ghaffari uses her exceptional interviewing talents to ask the right questions to elicit memorable lessons that are inspiring, uplifting and educational. Each of the eighteen chapters focuses on the life and career path of a fascinating, accomplished woman. Ghaffari illustrates that breakthrough success can occur in a myriad of fields from medicine, law, academia, government, public corporations, science and philanthropy. It is not necessary to stay on a narrow hierarchical career path. In fact, none of these champions followed career paths that were straight-line trajectories. 'We often have to be re-potted to grow' and 'Dont leave the power of a corporation just because you want to change the world. Harness it, ' are two of the many memorable lessons. Women Leaders at Workis filled with important wisdom and advice for past, present and future leaders. I highly recommend this book for men and women of all ages and interests!\"Susan Murphy, Ph. D, noted author, speaker, business consultant, www.Consult4Business.com\"Ghaffari's Women Leaders at Work captures diverse personal stories of trailblazing women who share candid experiences including career challenges. It is.

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families, documenting the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when reuniting with their mothers in Vancouver.