S6.E8 | Burying the Doubt: Women Rebuild Death Work
About this episode
This episode explores the role of women in the death care industry and their efforts to reclaim their place in funeral directing.
For most of human history, women cared for the dead. They prepared bodies and guided families through grief. Then death became a business, and women were pushed out. In this episode of What Does It Profit? , Dr. Dawn Carpenter brings you inside the death care industry with Doris Amen and Alexandra Mosca, two New York funeral directors who have spent decades working with the dead and bereaved in an industry that once told them they didn't belong. Today, women make up just 15 to 20 percent of funeral directors. The numbers are still small, but they are growing. Women aren't just entering the profession. They're reclaiming their role in death work and reshaping what it looks like.
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