1.   Tamam Abu Salim, a colleague, said she was a former housewife working for the first time in a job she had always wanted.

2.   The company employed former housewives as saleswomen and encouraged them to push its wares through their social contacts.

3.   Megawati insists that as a former housewife she has the right experience to deal with politics and economics.

4.   Though she has no chance of defeating Suharto, the softspoken former housewife has become a symbol of opposition to his authoritarian rule by labor and human rights activists.