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In this chapter we enter into dual lives of migrant women both at home and as paid workers in domestic and care work. We try to discover how much marital status and religious belief, patriarchal and religious cultural codes shaped the identities of women in marriage, in the family and home, when doing housework, in prioritising male promotion and job prospects. We also discuss whether such codes spill over to the unmarried and the atheists. The chapter also exposes the perceptions of women of ‘male superiority’ via their narratives of their gendered roles in these dual lives.
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These families did have some paid income but too low to survive.
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Yilmaz, G., Ledwith, S. (2017). Family and Gender: Religion and Work. In: Migration and Domestic Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51649-3_7
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