Fruits of female labor: trainside/roadside
Top: Times Square subway station. The vendor is one of many Latina migrants who set up small food stands throughout the subway system often, as here, accompanied by a child. The ad to her left, which covers many of the station’s large columns, is for “Brazilian Bum Bum Cream.” (No idea, WTF.)
Below: A woman who has set up shop on the side of a dirt road in Laos waits for customers to buy her produce.
The woman in the ad looks happy-happy. The vendors … not so much.
That's how young mothers fed their families when I lived in Cojutepeque, El Salvador, 50+ years ago: plying the streets with platters of street food (platters balanced on head). The Bum Bum cream supposedly addresses wrinkles and is the new tween sensation. There is a whole line of Brazilian face creams, etc. -- this is one of them.
Bum Bum cream does sound a bit nutty. Pistachios?