Rita Henley's Latest Articles
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She Works Hard for the Money: Spotlight on Women's Working Lives
As I write this, I am humming the late Donna Summer's hit “She Works Hard for the Money” and remembering the scenes from the video, featuring a middle-age single mother, an everywoman, scrubbing floors, waiting tables, running a machine in a garment factory, feeding her preteen kids and falling into bed exhausted.