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Even Breadwinning Wives Don’t Get Equality at Home

By Aliya Hamid Rao — 2019

When Americans think about fixing gender equality, they tend to focus on the workplace. But gender equality for women still lags in another realm: their own houses.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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