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- Title
Sewing Entrepreneurs and the Myth of the Spheres: How the "Work at Home Mom" Complicates the Public-Private Divide.
- Authors
Russum, Jennifer Ann
- Abstract
The article focuses on contemporary entrepreneurs and the ways sewing continues to play an important role in women's professional lives, especially for middle class women, who along with working-class women have historically used their sewing skills to earn personal income. It mentions struggle to classify and compensate women as laborers continues in modern America. It also mentions gender discrimination at work and dissonance of juggling employment with the unpaid labor of the home.
- Subjects
SEWING; WORKING class women; SEX discrimination in employment; EMPLOYMENT; UNPAID labor
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2019, Vol 40, Issue 3, p117
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5250/fronjwomestud.40.3.0117