When you search the internet for home based jobs or something, with which you think you could keep your wife occupied when she is bored during the day at home, dont use the google search, but use google’s blog search, as that is the only place that is not yet contaminated with spam. There are plenty of women who are writing about working online in their blogs, and following that would definitely produce good results, instead of going for those fake data entry jobs, where you get the work to do, but no money. I know that people dont want to do it for money, but for what ever work you do, if you get a little money it is a good thing isnt it? Well, Never go out for any of those stupid data entry sites.
There are a lot of things that you can do online. You can be a moderator for some forum, and get paid on a monthly basis or share the ad revenues from that forum, be an email list moderator, and if you dont like a moderators job, you can always do some writing, start a blog write and traffic will come rushing to your site, and you can earn with advertisments.