 During this time women were growing in independence and were increasingly entering the workplace.Laserstein depicted contemporary women of many stripes and fashions, including New Woman types, who adopted a more masculine look, and female nudes.As a single professional woman, Laserstein herself embodied the New Woman, and her androgynous look is evident in her many self-portraits, for example, "Self-portrait with A Cat" (1928) at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.