female household
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffemaleandhousehold
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female
adjective
uk/ˈfiː.meɪl/us/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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(Definition offemaleandhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffemale household
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One aspect offemalehouseholdsuccession was the occasional adoption of a son-inlaw as the official heir for the sake of military service.
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This supports the suggestion that the proportion offemalehouseholdhead was connected with their participation in the labour market and their economic status.
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Although the oldest male head identified, aged 87, was male,femalehouseholdheads tended on average to be a little older than male heads.
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The gender dummy was not included in the model since the number offemalehouseholdheads in the study was very small.
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Indeed, over 4,000 individuals in these two populations who lived in complex multiple-family households did so under afemalehouseholdhead.
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Femalehouseholdheads have been classified as ever-married if they were listed as widowed or as a wife, or had offspring residing with them.
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By contrast, the mean number of olderfemalehouseholdmembers with a long-term illness increases with age until the late 60s, when it begins to decline.
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I also examine how the household head and the ie wife divided responsibility between them, and how the ie wife managed male andfemalehouseholdemployees.
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Femalehouseholdservants regularly appeared in the public markets, and engaged in buying and selling as part of their duties.
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Femalehouseholddependants usually thresh millet bit by bit throughout the dry season.
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Femalehouseholdheads are mainly widows.
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In particular,femalehouseholdworkers help with weeding and harvesting.
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Male households with no wife composed 4.9% or 400,534. 15.0% or 1,212,436 were female households, with no husbands. 34% or 2,754,596 were non-family households.
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