I completely disagree with beehove_me's statement  "while I agree that women should bring home the bacon like men do, I also believe that kids are raised well under a stay at home mother."To believe than a woman is better than a man at raising a kid is completely untrue. It is precisely this kind of thinking that actually allows men to then get back on women when their kids take wrong tracks. This I believe was homeyJi's initial point. How in Nepal, a mom is always blamed for bad upbringing of a kid.
The point is, a kid needs proper upbringing with love and discipline. He is lucky if this is done by both his dad and mom. I have seen many moms badly raising their kids and many very responsible dads. It makes absolutely no sense to say that a mother will always raise her kid better than a father. This is an ancient thinking of an ancient male dominant society.

The other point I was making about empowering housewives by giving them financial freedom is, in Nepal and elsewhere, there are many couples where women are abused but they dare not to leave their husbands because they don't know where to go and how to make a living since they chose or were forced indirectly by the society to stay home and raise kids. Why do you think many women in Nepal who are housewives choose to turn a blind eye over the fact that there husbands are having affaires than file for divorce?