Chira

As we read about these interviewees, we get the distinct impression that Chira is indeed serving more as what Mason called a cheerleader for their participation in the work force than as someone revealing the hardships of their unlucky lot in life.

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

I'll bet all three women would be stunned to read, in Chira's section on "Working and Thriving," that "waitresses, factory workers, and domestic workers told the researchers in a 1987 study that they would not leave the workforce even if they did not need the money."

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

As we read about these interviewees, we get the distinct impression that Chira is indeed serving more as what Mason called a cheerleader for their participation in the work force than as someone revealing the hardships of their unlucky lot in life.

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

I'll bet all three women would be stunned to read, in Chira's section on "Working and Thriving," that "waitresses, factory workers, and domestic workers told the researchers in a 1987 study that they would not leave the workforce even if they did not need the money."

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

Chira in Marathi means flat stones or flagstones Remember Wada Chirebandi.

Mumbai Names 4 Abodh 2009

Chira in Marathi means flat stones or flagstones Remember Wada Chirebandi.

Archive 2009-06-01 Abodh 2009

Only this time, it's a different version -- flattened rice known as Chirva, Chira or Poha in different parts of India.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Susan Chira will be the editor of our foreign report whether it appears in print or on Nytimes. com.

The NYT Merged Newsroom Letter Ben Barren 2005

Only this time, it's a different version -- flattened rice known as Chirva, Chira or Poha in different parts of India.

Poha--Indian Delicacy 2005

Chira was raised in an "affluent" suburb of New York, roared through Andover and Harvard, got a job at the Gray Lady, felt a "stab of anxiety" when, in her pre-children days, she happened to glance at a New York magazine headline that read something like "You Can't Have It All," yet nonetheless screwed her courage to the sticking place and had a baby.

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004