The Roles of the Husband and Wife

All married men and married women know what it means and what time and effort it takes to keep a house and look after infants and children and it is certainly unfair to a woman to load herself, or to be loaded, with more than what she can shoulder.
It is true that the basic function of the married woman in Islam is to manage the household and bring up children. Nevertheless, this does not contradict the rights of the woman to sell, buy, teach, learn, and defend her country as a man does if she has to.
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