In 2014, women made 83 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Single women without children earn 94 cents for each dollar earned by a man, whereas married mothers made only 77 cents.
Naomi is in dire straits because, as a widow with no offspring, there's no way for her to be provided for—and especially not in a foreign land that has no rules for providing for widows like Israel does.
Soon, Elizabeth will die childless, but with her successor named, her death will trigger a scramble between her former advisors, all jockeying to secure positions of power in the court of the new king.
The Salian dynasty ended when the last male heir died childless. The next family to rule the Holy Roman Empire was the Hohenstaufen, also known as the Staufer Dynasty.
She had only this one relationship left in all the world, and the poor, unfortunate, widowed and childless woman had cherished it with all the tenderness hoarded in her heart.
Now sometime before Gao Qiu having no child of his own, had adopted his cousin, and was very fond of him, but Master Gao used the influence of this official for the sole purpose of debauching the people's wives.