But more and more women are stepping out to work and aspiring to be independent and successful.
Girls, the thinking goes, can help with younger siblings, household chores or simply be sent out to work.
The obvious way to keep the household financially afloat is for the mother to go out to work.
Going out to work may not increase conjugal unhappiness, but it certainly gives wives an easier way out.
But if the state spent less by getting more out to work faster, the state could keep the savings.
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Individuals and teams form a working group, establish a charter, and set out to work on innovation improvement initiatives.
"Farmers going out to work need to stop, to think, to ask themselves what may have changed, " Mr Downey added.
Moreover, in these days of lower oil prices, some families and husbands are pressing their women to go out to work.
Women, meanwhile, were going out to work in ever larger numbers, especially in the big cities, in offices and department stores.
He said he could not go out to work because my family back in India would think he could not support me.
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Pointing out that second-hand smoke can harm babies turns out to work.
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Since they would lose their exemption if they went out to work, they and their large families fall on the public purse.
It was intended to "support and encourage" and to get people back into the habit of getting up and going out to work.
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It is also a country where a generation of newly empowered young women are going out to work in larger numbers than ever before.
Louise Woodward was not just a girl who killed a baby, she also represented a real dilemma for mothers who go out to work.
It still felt right that the husband should go out to work and the wife should run the house and look after the children.
The reforms provided instead for fixed, finite, block grants to the states, with broad state flexibility to adopt changes to get dependents out to work.
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Mexican nannies hold babies while American mothers go out to work.
"It could well be that what works for one disease will turn out to work for another, even though that wasn't the original intent, " he said.
Further work must also be carried out to work out how to perform quantitative measurements but Dr McGloin said the team has earmarked other uses for HoloHands.
She argued that without reform, "we are going to find that it becomes prohibitive for many parents to afford childcare and be able to go out to work".
And as more and more women now go out to work, there are going to be fewer people to care for those who can no longer look after themselves.
The tax system allowed (and continues to allow) married couples to split their income for tax purposes, which acts as a strong disincentive to wives going out to work.
One morning in Nimoo I say jullay (hello) and smile at a lovely older woman--Ladakh boasts some of the most beautiful women in the world--who is heading out to work the dikes.
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"Even simple things like arthritis are made worse and that will have an impact generally in the way that people can live their lives, go out to work and so on, " he said.
Most of the mothers, who under communism would have gone out to work as a matter of course, now spend their days in tiny apartments up several flights of stairs and collect Hartz IV.
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Meanwhile the economy was swiftly absorbing underused labour from three main sources: farms, tiny and belatedly mechanised, gave up their young, the diaspora came home and, above all, women started going out to work.
After a lot of hard work by many people across the company and around the world, today I report to you that we have indeed achieved the 3 objectives we set out to work on beginning 8 weeks ago.
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