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A WOMAN'S place is in the home

1844
High Life
II. 121
A woman's place is her own house, a taking care of the children.
1897
Beth Book
(1898) xix.
If we had .. done as we were told, the woman's-sphere-is-home would have been as ugly and comfortless a place for us today as it used to be.
1936
Corpse with Dirty Face
iv.
Mrs. Franks, being a dutiful wife, was always on the premises. ‘Ah, yes—woman's place is in the home,’ said Pierce.
1943
Moving Finger
vi.
I go up in arms against the silly old-fashioned prejudice that women's place is always the home.
1979
Barnardo
v.
Barnardo .. firmly believed that a woman's place was in the home.

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A WOMAN'S work is never done

1570
Husbandry
(rev. ed.) 26
Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but huswiues affaires haue never none ende.
1629
in
Roxburghe Ballads
(1880) III. 302 (
title
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A woman's work is never done.
1722
Papers
(1960) I. 19
If you go among the Women, you will learn .. that a Woman's work is never done.
1920
Times Weekly
12 Mar. 209
‘Women's work is never done.’.. We shall never hear the whole of woman's work during the war.
1981
Incomer
xiv.
My grannie used to say, A woman's work is never done when it never gets started!

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