Mothers who work. Women who don't have children. Childcare and the economic costs. Valuing unpaid work. How far have we come sorting through the social and personal experience of a workplace that adjusts to gender equality? Do we have the information as well as the will to understand what has changed and what now needs to change? Join Megan Stack in conversation with Anne Manne and Marilyn Waring at the Bendigo Writers Festival for a conversation about making women's work count, and Megan’s new memoir Women’s Work.
Women’s Work: a reckoning with work and home undertakes a forthright and relentless examination of domestic labour, and the complexities of working parenthood – for herself and for the babysitters, cooks and cleaners which made her continuing career possible. The New York Times said: ‘Memoirs about motherhood are exceedingly common, but Women’s Work dares to explore the labor arrangements that often make such books possible ... Stack writes sharp, pointed sentences that flash with dark insight ... ruthlessly self-aware [and] fearless.’
Megan K. Stack is the author of Every Man in This Village Is a Liar, which was a finalist for America’s 2010 National Book Award and an Australian bestseller. She reported on war for the Los Angeles Times from dozens of countries, and was most recently Moscow bureau chief. She was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
