When barbering is mentioned in Ghana, not many links such a job to women, as it is normally regarded as a job for males. However, somewhere in Kumasi, there is a young lady who is apparently rewriting ...

Male-dominated occupations often create unfavourable environments that make it difficult for women to excel. Gender stereotyping tends to suppress the interest of people who would have loved to ...

CJ Stack felt like she had tried nearly every salon and barbershop in the Washington region, desperate for her dirty-blond hair to be trimmed into a short haircut. But stylists never seemed to take it ...

It’s not unusual these days to see a woman holding the razor at a barbershop. Women have become adept at cutting hair and often are better stylists than men. However, what is rare is to see a woman ...

OAKLAND — The Montclair Barber Shop recently hired its first lady barber when Linda Amorin joined the crew. “I was looking for an old-fashioned barber shop,” said Amorin, who has spent 16½ years ...

The lady barber on 82nd Street remembers she wasn’t at all interested in cutting hair as a career after she graduated from Coronado High School in 1978. But after a year, her father-in-law at the time ...