女おんなは三さん界がいに家いえなし

expression

a woman has no home of her own in this world

Old-fashioned proverb reflecting the traditional view that a woman must obey her parents in youth, her husband in marriage, and her children in old age, leaving her no permanent place of her own. Now considered outdated and sexist.

• 「女おんなは三さん界がいに家いえなし」ということわざは、今いまではほとんど使つかわれない。

  The proverb 'a woman has no home of her own in this world' is hardly used nowadays.