Information deficits and classification difficulties meant that housewives and ' never having worked ' had to be taken as a single category.
Like housewives, older people may be exploited if they provide unpaid domestic labour, whether in child-care or in the care of other aged family members.
Subsidiary agriculture was practised above all by housewives and non-working elderly men, although both employed men and women also made their contribution.
Some even emerge as leaders of social movements, including housewives' associations and consumers' leagues.
Some withdrew from fieldwork, married and became full-time housewives.
Should it attempt to appeal to women on the basis of their role as housewives or workers?
Some conservatives, notably libertarians and housewives, ultimately rejected politics as a vocation.
Table 2 shows the same population of women classified by their own occupations if employed outside the home with categories for students and housewives.
