Maya Angelou Women Work

Maya Angelou touches on the 20th century idea of what was considered an inherited job by all women and future women to come; she further elaborated on what seems to be never-ending strenuous tasks that her and many women much like her executed every day. Angelou lists off specific tasks ranging from cooking and cleaning indoors to picking weeds and cotton outside in a field: showing how diverse and tiresome “women work” could be. Although she gives multiple examples of what women do for their households, not once did she mention their families helping or them receiving any type of appreciation. It seems that women are rooted to the degrading tradition of “women work” and are expected to do the job without question or reward for all of their