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women work harder than men; women's work |
| text: |
I once more saw from his description of his sister-in-law's work-load that the women here do work harder than the men. While these still stretch themselves on their beds the women already are off fetching water and cooking breakfast and the food to be taken to the fields. (164) On the fields their work is much the same as the men's but while these now in the cool season return without a care, the women carry baskets piled high with taro back to the village, then they have to get wood and water late in the evening, have to stamp rice for the evening meal and the next morning, and cook supper, but the men, once back in the village, have little to do. |
