Seven of ten are women, most of them homemakers in charge of investing household savings.

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Serious investors scour the web, side by side with homemakers and students for the latest news and rumors.

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Suburban homemakers joined with college students to make up the core of the new environmental movement of the 1970s.

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Today they are business executives and homemakers with many of the same challenges my wife Jeanne and I faced.

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Girls who become brides stay uneducated because they must become mothers, caretakers and homemakers, further driving the cycle of poverty and powerlessness.

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There also is a Tide in the affairs of Women and tens of millions of homemakers (including this one), men and women both.

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But in a nation frozen in downsize mode, Yamazaki Eriko has caught the imagination of talk-show hosts, career men and women as well as homemakers.

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As full-time mothers or homemakers, stay-at-home wives earn zero.

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This notion that women's natural role as homemakers and mothers gave them a responsibility to act as nature's housekeepers led many socially conservative women to take up environmental activism, campaigning to protect the nation's bird population, which was being decimated by the feather trade, and promoting conservation education in their children's schools.

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From fishermen to homemakers, from pre-schoolers to dropouts, from teachers to municipal workers - not forgetting the very young, the very old and the marginalized - the entire local population in the Municipality of Agoo in La Union, the Philippines, has the chance to become literate or upgrade their skills thanks to its municipal authority.

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