In the post-war period, women started joining the workforce, contributing to family income, and thus started exercising and influence on family affairs. Previously, authority in the family rested on the husband who was the decision maker in all matters. But women, with their economic power,started influencing decisions about important family matters. In developed countries now, household work is shared by both husbands and wives, and outdoor activities like shopping and taking children to school, to doctors or for recreation are done equally by both husbands and wives. Large extended families have given, and are still giving place to small, nuclear families.
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