Women Who Work

No person in any society, male or female, gets through life without working. Some work less, others more; some at dirty or distasteful tasks, others at interesting and pleasant ones; some for money and some for honor, some work at play, and others for survival. Everywhere, social order is imposed through two kinds of social structures: a kinship system and a division of labor, and the two tend to be intertwined. The norms of division of labor allocate work according to age, race, ethnicity, s...