Women, educated or not, used to be orientated to marriage, housekeeping and raising of children.

Of course we can always do some sound housekeeping to make it smoother and more effective.

So, first, a small housekeeping announcement please switch off your proper English check programs installed in your brain.

Women, particularly in rural areas, are more bound to the house and housekeeping, thus leaving participation in public and political life to men.

This situation is understandable due to poor extension of market activities and because of the gender distribution of labor, which limits the participation of women to housekeeping, with extension only to agricultural production.

For the first time since official gold transactions became more transparent, the Bundesbank has given notice that a significant portion of its holdings will be transferred home from France and the United States. Ostensibly, this is just a matter of monetary housekeeping.

As any seasoned banker knows, a well managed bank should undertake internal stress tests regularly as a matter of good housekeeping. The financial crisis should have mandated a running stress test to keep senior management up to date daily. Why, then, did the US need the government to conduct a financial exercise that bankers themselves could and should have done far better and faster?

As any seasoned banker knows, a well managed bank should undertake internal stress tests regularly as a matter of good housekeeping. The financial crisis should have mandated a running stress test to keep senior management up to date daily. Why, then, did the US need the government to conduct a financial exercise that bankers themselves could and should have done far better and faster?