Both Parents Work? Where's the Canon?

[Shauna]

No: HPFGUIDX 47312

Eileen said:

> We have no information about any of the working witches in the 
books
> being married (though some of them are said to be single: 
Bertha
> Jorkins, Rita Skeeter). 
> No, no evidence for any assertions here, I don't think.
> 
> Eileen 


No, we have no individual working wives, but the sheer number 
of professional females in the HPverse leads me to believe 
*some* of them are married.
 
What about the women at Hogwarts?  Is it possible that any of 
them are married?  McGonagall, Trelawny, Pomfrey, Hooch, 
Pince, Sprout, Grubbly-Plank, Vector, and Sinastra (although, we 
don't know that Sinastra is female - just that he/she danced the 
two-step with Moody) ... and Rosmerta, over at Hogsmeade.
 
What about elsewhere?  There's a Mafalda Hopkirk at the MoM, 
and Bathilda Bagshott, Miranda Goshawk, Phyllida Spore, and 
Cassandra Vablatsky wrote some of the textbooks used at 
Hogwarts.  There's Agatha Chubb, an expert in ancient wizarding 
artifacts; Madam Malkin, seller of robes; Catriona McCormack, a 
Quidditch captain and chaser for Portree in the 1960s who has 
two children (and if you count professional Quidditch as 'working' 
there are plenty of others like her); Agatha Timms, owner of an 
eel farm; Celestina Warbeck, professional singer, as well as 
some of the members of the Wierd Sisters, possibly; and also, 
finally, Arabella Figg (... Mrs. Figg... is the 'Mrs.' in her name 
purely for disguise?).

Sure, no mention of their marital status is made, but given the 
sheer number of professional women, some of them must be 
married!
 
There are also plenty of famous witches from the past who were 
possibly married, and certainly not stay-at-home moms, not the 
least of whom are Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.  I 
find it hard to believe that the wizarding world would become 
more partiarichal, rather than less, as the time went on.
 
 ~ Shauna