Photo essay highlights Egypt’s female breadwinners: London-based Egyptian documentary and portrait photographer Lina Geoushy’s photo essay, “The Breadwinners,” brings to light how women housekeepers in Egypt act as the sole wage earners in their families but are still subjected to patriarchal practices at home, according to her official page. Geoushy says her work aims to portray her subjects in a position of power and leadership, and hopes to enact changes to the Unified Labor Law to grant them greater legal protection.

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