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In more than 65% of two-parent households, both parents work outside the home, as do 75% of single mothers.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Yet many of us still buy into the career-feminist point of view in which only the hard work outside the home should be celebrated and all the birthday-party planning, well-visit booking, and new-shoe buying is a burden.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 10 May 2025
Gender dynamics became a flash point: Danes see themselves as pioneers for equality, while many new arrivals came from traditional Muslim societies where women often did not work outside the home and girls could not always decide when and whom to marry.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Today, two-thirds of U.S. mothers work outside the home, in almost equal measures across party lines.
—Amanda Ruggeri, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Yet many of us still buy into the career-feminist point of view in which only the hard work outside the home should be celebrated and all the birthday-party planning, well-visit booking, and new-shoe buying is a burden.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 10 May 2025
Gender dynamics became a flash point: Danes see themselves as pioneers for equality, while many new arrivals came from traditional Muslim societies where women often did not work outside the home and girls could not always decide when and whom to marry.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Today, two-thirds of U.S. mothers work outside the home, in almost equal measures across party lines.
—Amanda Ruggeri, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for work outside the home
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“Work outside the home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20outside%20the%20home. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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