How to Use work outside the home in a Sentence

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  • Her father was the founder of an oil company; her mother did not work outside the home.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Although many women now work outside the home, they are still expected to take a back seat to men.
    New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • In other words, buoyed by the monthly payments, women may be more likely to stay with the kids than work outside the home for a period of time.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2021
  • More than 2 million women went to work outside the home, as factories ramped up to increase war supplies of all sorts.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2019
  • Due to the severity of their child’s disability, some parents are unable to work outside the home.
    Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Nov. 2023
  • In the last two decades, a generation of Afghan women and girls flooded into schools, and many in urban centers have been able to go to work outside the home.
    NBC News, 2 July 2021
  • Women had to wear head-to-toe coverings, were not allowed to attend school or work outside the home and were forbidden to travel alone.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
  • What Tiffany Willis is teaching, according to a recent Pew study, is part of a rise in stay-at-home moms vs moms that work outside the home, where Black moms came in third compared to other races.
    Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2022
  • But remote learning isn't possible for some families in which both parents work outside the home.
    Holly Yan, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Women who can easily work outside the home are still not free or unburdened from other people.
    Angela Garbes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • Choosing to stay home and care for your kids is a privilege—but so is choosing to work outside the home after having kids, which requires securing childcare.
    Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Boys could travel independently and work outside the home.
    Nadia Hashimi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2015
  • The transformation confers a very practical benefit as well, since a male or bacha posh child can work outside the home for their families.
    Nadia Hashimi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2015
  • One campaign video for a candidate from the Forza Italia party, another coalition ally, was roundly mocked for promising a salary to women who don’t work outside the home.
    Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • That’s because young people — particularly those in their 20s and 30s — are more likely to be essential workers or work outside the home.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • We’re told to embrace motherhood, fit into those pre-pregnancy jeans, maintain an Instagram-worthy home, and for many moms, also work outside the home.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Across Turkey, devout women, both professionals and those who don’t work outside the home, not only turned out to vote for Mr. Erdogan in large numbers, but also coaxed their friends and relatives to do the same.
    Elif Ince, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • In earlier discussions, people who must work outside the home — such as in food service, restaurants and grocery stores — were one of the groups considered eligible for Phase 2.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Women work outside the home at lower rates in India than almost any other country, a huge roadblock for economic expansion.
    Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Children have missed learning opportunities, and those who don’t have easy access to technology or have parents who must work outside the home are at greater risk than ever of being left behind.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Female characters in popular Indian television soap operas now work outside the home and are active in public life.
    Monica Das Gupta, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Before the conservative resurgence, some women were ordained as pastors in the S.B.C.; afterward, that practice largely ended, and hard-liners argued that women also shouldn't teach Sunday-school classes or even work outside the home.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 10 June 2021
  • These female caregivers also are more likely than others to work outside the home, which brings additional challenges, even for those like Kazmi, a former researcher in neurosciences who attended medical school.
    Monica Williams, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
  • By speaking about the untapped power that women could bring to Japan’s economy, Abe elevated the issue of women’s roles in Japanese society, encouraging women to seek work outside the home and pushing men to accept the societal changes.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • Educated women generally have better access to birth control, work outside the home and contribute significantly to their family economically.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021

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