In terms of child-rearing, women in the 1960s inspired the media to produce the idiom kyiku mama, which referred to the domestic counterpart of sararii-man (salaryman).
Women have traditionally been preoccupied with household tasks and child rearing and have rarely had opportunities for contact with men outside the family.
Further expansion to the south had proved difficult and undesirable since the presence of the tsetse fly and thick jungle made cattle rearing difficult there.