enamor and suraj: this is a qatari figure talking to a qatari paper about qatari demographics and qatari social issues...their lives don't need to revolve around you, the expat. Besides, Qatari or expat, any mother that chooses to work for any reason does so of her own free will...my mom is pretty much a genius who would've left my high flyer dad in her dust if she'd chosen to work...but she chose to stay home and be with me and my brothers every second of our wild lives..my dad worked himself into a position of relative affluence and supported my mom fully in her decision to put kids before career..the result is all 4 of us kids instinctively plant a kiss on our parents' forehead the moment we see them..i would hate it if my mom was at work even if she was doing it only for me..and don't even try telling me that all moms work STRICTLY for their kids' sake and not their own egos/satisfaction/development..