He and his wife are housekeepers up at Baskerville Hall.

It was not possible to speak of equal rights of women and yet to maintain gender differentiation and sexual stereotypes, such as insisting on the role of women as housekeepers.

Traditionally, young girls in Tajikistan have been raised from an early age to be future wives and mothers, reliable protectresses of the home, hard working housekeepers and performers of the husband's will whereas young boys have been raised as social leaders and as future breadwinners and family mainstays.