Open AccessJust a Housewife
Author(s) -
Lebanese American University
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1620
Subject(s) - housewife , wife , work (physics) , laundry , noon , art , sociology , history , political science , archaeology , gender studies , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , physics , astronomy
Ques. Are you married?Ans. Yes.Ques. Does your wife work?Ans. Oh, no!Ques. How does she spend her time 7Ans. Oh! she gets up early to prepilre the children's breakfast and send them to school. Then she goes to fetch water from the village well, gathers wo,)d from the near-by grove, then she kneads the dough, prepares the bread, cooks the noon meal; cleans the house, and does some sewing; after which she waters the house garden, milks the cow, etc ...Ques. How can you say that she does not work?Ans. Oh! she is just a housewife. She does not perform any real work!