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琼·斯坦利在一个百货商店里卖化妆品。这是康涅狄格州首府哈特福德一家最豪华的百货公司的郊区分店,大部分顾客来自中上阶层。她在这个店里干干歇歇,已有三十个年头了。她说:“我在家呆了二十年当孩子们上高中时,我又出来工作了。”在美国,如果一个家庭里有孩子上了大学,那就是要花大钱的时候了,许多妇女因此出来重新工作。许多在经济困难中挣扎的寡妇们,因为没有正式职业,只好去卖货。琼的丈夫是个纺织厂的采购员。虽然他工作得相当出色,但他的职位仍然不稳,因为整个工业界都毫不留情地倾向于雇佣
Joan Stanley sells cosmetics in a department store. It is a suburban branch of one of the most luxurious department stores in Connecticut’s capital, Hartford, with most of its customers coming from the upper middle class. She has been working in this shop for thirty years. “I’ve been out of work when children are in high school,” she said. "In the United States, if a family has children in college, that’s a big time spent, and many women therefore Come out and work again. Many widows who struggled in economic hardship had to sell their wares because they did not have a formal job. Joan’s husband is a textile mill buyer. Although he has worked very well, his position remains precarious as the entire industry is mercilessly inclined to hire