Compared to what? Compared to a western country, or compared to the existing conditions where women and daughters are not employed and regarded as property to be sold to feed the remainder of the family during the recent famine?

There are a number of very very good things you achieve by getting them into work. The entire systemic structure shifts and the role of women as property becomes significantly weakened, this opens up elimination of many bad things, and economically empowers working women with the means to start organising that they may not have had previously in their role as property economically dominated by the patriarch stuck at home.