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There is a minhag that women don’t work at the time the candles are burning. The Chasan Sofer explains that they commemorate the eight yamim tovim min Hatorah (2 Pesach, 1 Shevuos, 2 Rosh Hashanah, 1 Yom Kippur and 2 Sukkos) that women light candles and don’t work and the men commemorate the neis of Chanukah with oil.