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What is the central idea of the poem Woman Work?

What is the central idea of the poem Woman Work?

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  1. “Woman Work” describes the pressure that women, and Black women, in particular, face to work and care for other people. The speaker must cook, clean, pick cotton, cut sugar cane, and take care of everyone around her, finding brief respite only in the freedom offered by the natural world.

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