Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work outside the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1871 , 74 per cent of the village men were manual workers and most were engaged in agriculture , while the few women who worked outside the home were almost entirely ‘ in service ’ . |
| 2 | It was commonly held that the woman who worked outside the home could neither properly look after her child nor attend to her domestic duties . |
| 3 | For those who work outside the home , out of many choices , it was their ‘ relationship with colleagues ’ that gives them the most satisfaction ( 80% ) , with flexibility of working hours ( 68% ) and pay ( 60% ) trailing behind . |
| 4 | For people who work outside the home , work provides the main opportunity to form this loose social network but for others the same support is provided by an extended family network of children , grandchildren , brothers and sisters and neighbours . |
| 5 | An American study from the University of Oregon showed that housewives had a 54 per cent higher incidence of cancer than the female population as a whole and 157 per cent higher than that portion of the female population who work outside the home . |