Thus husbands are often heavily in debt to their wives, and the latter assume many of the financial responsibilities which should rightly belong to the men as fathers and family heads, such as finding bride-price for sons, paying for the children's educations, bearing the expenses of family fests, and the like. ... An example of this is the case where a Nupe man's body was found in a river, but instead of assuming he may have drowned, they blamed an elderly woman with whom the man had spent a great deal of time (Nadel, 1952). ... As well, when a woman chooses this career, she is us...

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