According to the reading, white women are mostly playing a role of reproductive labor at home such as wives and mothers. The racial-ethnic women carry out lower-level “public” reproductive labor and the white women carry out white collar supervisory and lower professional positions. For the domestic service in private households, racial-ethnic women were hired to do hard labor of household tasks, which is often been shown in old movies. They work as servants, subordinates to the householders. In the public reproductive labor, or so-called institutional service work, white women and non-white women are doing different kind of jobs. White women usually do works that have physical and social contact with public such as waitress; meanwhile non-white
