Books about women adapting to struggles – like Memoires of A Geisha or Apothecary diaries (or even Neapolitan quartet)

Hey! Looking for book (or other media) suggestions that would capture underprivileged women's struggles in an unfair situation, like some kind of harsh business or upbringing, or being pushed into basically selling yourself or being in that sort of business

An actually complex take of how women survived and adapted in those situations

Thanks:)