When we decide to call housework "emotional labor," we deny the extent to which housework is simply work, which capitalism has historically extracted from women, for free.
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Looking at routine housework, they found that almost half the difference for women is driven by the fact that the sort to join a couple does more housework in the first place.
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I head home and start on some housework and dinner.
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Eventually, I'm doing the housework naked and entertaining the girls.
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She enjoys housework, the innocent optimism of the domestic sphere.
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The study found that married mothers who bring in the sole income of the home do about an hour of housework a day, while sole-income fathers only spend about 10 minutes on housework.
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The researchers looked at people over time, as they moved into couples, and at the differences between routine housework chores, like cooking, cleaning and tidying; and non-routine housework, like making repairs around the house.
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Or, at the very least, help cut down on your housework.
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After he finally released her, he ordered her to do housework.
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She was told she had to learn English, cookery and housework.
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We've agreed to share all of the child care and housework.
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The quarrel began when Bell left reminder notes for housework tasks.
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I didn't want to keep washing dishes and doing housework forever.
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It's not that women have more time; they just do more housework.
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Today, daily errands, housework, and managing the girls' routines is the norm.
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You come over and do housework, and I'll take pictures of you.
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My mother was an excellent and grateful supervisor because she hated housework.
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He did housework in lieu of paying rent, according to the lawsuit.
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Very few cared for children or other household members, or did housework.
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In return, Ms. Honda has been helping out more with the housework.
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He spent his days with family, at the gym, doing housework, exercising.
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AMM: My work has all the memory of domestic organization, the housework.
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When possible, resist gender roles in housework and child care among parents.
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Are housework and child care equal to paid work outside the home?
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Men manage a bit more than half the housework that women do.
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They share bills, housework and childcare for their 219-year-old daughter.
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Women are expected to earn money, do housework and look after children.
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While I am working at housework I study about whatever I am writing.
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When the housework wasn't done to the couple's liking, they physically abused her.
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But women, rather than enjoying housework, may instead be responding to society's expectations.
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Indian women do 90% of the housework, the most of any large country.
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They are good at doing all the housework and they're very good cooks.
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Pérez was forced to do all the housework and care for the children.
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After mom passed, dad could not do any housework- he didn't know how.
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Except for housework and gardening, Mother never exercised a day in her life.
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He does do housework, but I have definitely been doing more of it.
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Faillettaz devised her pedagogy in response to her own profound hatred of housework.
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For women, this can be redirecting energy from office housework into important projects.
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Without his job to distract him, Sean tries to throw himself into housework.
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Female players in that era were often told they should be doing housework.
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Men, she says, have to do more of the housework and child care.
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Housework included cooking, cleaning, pet care, yard care and home and car maintenance.
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She can no longer recognize the husband's face; he starts to do housework.
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"Housework is very time-consuming for families with two working parents," says Tassin.
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"Housework is a thankless, unending job," she told The Ottawa Citizen in 22002.
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Men with ill partners increased their errands and housework by 4.4 hours more each week than women did when their spouses fell ill, the study found, but that was largely because women were already putting in more hours on housework.
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But half that share said their partners shared in responsibilities like housework and cleaning.
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The net benefit of these gizmos was, for the most part, liberation from housework.
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The kind of man who spurns routine housework is more likely to couple up.
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My long-term boyfriend and I live together and fight the most over housework.
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She believes no artist was ever ruined by housework (or helped by it either).
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H uda : I mean that you should help me a little with the housework.
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Even when men say they split housework evenly, the data shows they do not.
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Office housework can be important, but it's often "someone has to do it" work.
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During the day, wear protective gloves while doing housework, especially when working in water.
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My fear of death is always overruled by my need to avoid extra housework.
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In rough proportion to the amount they outearn their husbands, women do more housework.
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Even more horribly, men who do housework have less sex than those who don't!
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After breakfast, I do the housework — cleaning, sweeping inside and outside, washing the dishes.
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On the home front, housework, like email, can expand to fill all available space.
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If people in couples choose to do more housework than singletons, that is their business.
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These changes are reflected in wedding ceremonies, in the division of housework and in bed.
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In my own childhood, I dreaded this practice due to all the obligatory housework involved.
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They are irresistibly drawn by the detritus generated by building, gardening, housework, tailoring or carpentry.
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The average Korean husband does far less child care or housework than his Western peer.
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You were doing too much housework, taking advantage of those nice little Home Depot Saturdays.
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For them, housework has mostly been invisible, something that happens magically while they're at school.
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So while I do what I can of the housework, they pick up the slack.
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E. and I tag-team housework while he belts Lizzo and I can't stop laughing.
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Instead, she can be expected to live a traditionally subordinate life of housework and childbearing.
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Amazon Subscriptions: I'm particular with cleaning supplies, because I do a lot of the housework myself.
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BD catches up on housework, and T. plays near him and helps out when he can.
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In the video, a woman police identified as Rudolph tells viewers she needed to do housework.
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R. heads outside to get some yard work done, and I get started on the housework.
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We come home and I run around doing housework and baby food prep while he naps.
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Then she'd come back and start on the housework: endless laundry, endless food prep, endless dishes.
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It does not measure the unpaid contribution of women in the form of housework, for example.
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Look, we all know the wonders of robot vacuums — they take the work out of housework.
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They're also still doing a lot more unpaid labor in the form of housework and childcare.
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More than 276 million men in India also pledged to do their fair share of housework.
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And it would liberate women from what Lenin himself called the soul-crushing drudgery of housework.
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Less clear, however, is whether men take on more caregiving or housework when women get sick.
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Markle had been offended by a dishwashing detergent commercial because it focused on women doing housework.
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I'll also do some housework, since I'll have the place to myself (dishes, laundry, cleaning up).
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For example, avoid too much housework and don&apost go up and down stairs too much.
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And when it comes to gender, expectations about housework have been among the slowest to change.
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So far, what we know about the next generation is that girls are doing less housework.
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Natalie and I share the housework but she still cooks, and I still do the dishes.
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JW: Who refuses to do any housework and just rolls around and wears neon green underwear.
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January 13: Talk to your partner for 10 minutes about anything except jobs, kids, and housework.
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The rest of the day is housework, laundry, organizing lives, being the COO of a household.
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The saddest part of this is that dual-earner couples who also have an equal division of housework report more financial advantages — and higher levels of marital and sexual satisfaction — than couples in which the wife is in charge of most of the housework and child care.
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After a long day at work, the last thing you want to come home to is housework.
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The extra housework such men do comes in the form of DIY or managing the family finances.
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Across the rich world, men and women in couples spend more time doing housework than single people.
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Even in the most progressive countries, they still shoulder the lion's share of child care and housework.
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The researchers also revealed that when women outearn their husbands, the share of housework they do increases.
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Brown: We are animation wives: We both do the housework, and neither of us kiss and tell.
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Picture, if you will, the last time you vacuumed your home or did any type of housework.
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Jones's title comes from the 1970s Italian wages for housework slogan Tremate, tremate, le streghe son tornate!
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Increases in the total time couples devote to unpaid housework results in significant increases in sexual frequency.
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They are expected to contribute to housework and the supervision of the youngest members of the family.
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They went on to have two children, they both had professional jobs, and they shared the housework.
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If you're doing housework, you're not accumulating that capital that will help you in the labor market.
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The concept still is inequality and the notion that women are primarily responsible for children and housework.
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An increased workload, where it was mentioned at all, tended to be in the context of housework.
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A study published last month in Sociological Methods & Research tried to explain why women do more housework.
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She'd grown tired of the pain of housework, bending down to clean and scrubbing at tiny stains.
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When I'm home, I do more of the housework and child care while she prepares for classes.
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It also exposes the problem feminism has always had with housework, in the White House or elsewhere.
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Women still do the majority of the housework and child care in families with two working parents.
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I don't know anyone who doesn't have the same cyclical argument about housework on a regular basis.
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I write whenever I can snatch the time from housework, telephone, callers, Mr. Wilder and Ben, the bulldog.
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For example, Boston Dynamics recently debuted an all-electric robot dot called SpotMini that actually performs limited housework.
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American men do an average of 15 minutes of housework per day, compared to 45 minutes for women.
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In China women did 73% of unpaid work (including child care, shopping and housework), according to the OECD.
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According to this narrative (here, here, and here, for example), most of the housework falls on the woman.
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Fathers do more child care and housework than ever and are perceived as more competent parents than ever.
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Instead, the lack of education and food continued, and she was required to do most of the housework.
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Studies show that even though Mum is working today, she still does most of the housework and parenting.
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Bill is starting to feel burdened by her absence, as he is picking up her slack in housework.
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Soap operas with their repetitive, open-ended structure reflected the rhythms of women's housework—and so did baseball.
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The pairing of everyday housework with suicide might also call to mind Marsha Norman's 1983 play 'Night Mother.
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The same research revealed that men took on most of the housework in only 5 percent of cases.
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They're still held to a higher social standard, which explains why they're doing so much housework, studies show.
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The activism by the English Collective of Prostitutes was an essential part of the Wages for Housework campaign.
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One study found that sons of working mothers spend more time on housework and child care as adults.
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As a woman, as a mother, as a feminist, I have a lot of complicated feelings about housework.
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Many insisted that housework was mindless drudgery and that fulfillment could be found only outside of the home.
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Some women instituted gender reparations with their partners, redistributing the housework to compensate for decades of patriarchal control.
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She wore a girdle under her clothes every day, even if she was just at home doing housework.
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I have a very time-consuming job and before I transitioned, my wife did most of the housework.
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I'm partial to the advice about teaching them to do more housework, even if my son is not.
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If this dialogue associates women with housework and men with C.E.O. jobs, the chatbots will do the same.
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If this dialogue associates women with housework and men with C.E.O. jobs, the chatbots will do the same.
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It's just that not as many men spent as much time on housework as their wives, she said.
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"In the 1990s, women did most of the changing: entering the workforce, entering different occupations, they did less housework, the housework gap closed, so women did a lot of the changing early on — and then we stalled out," says Joanna Pepin, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
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In conventional households the husband has few responsibilities—and offers little help in raising the children or doing housework.
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SINGLE people beware: if and when you move in with someone, you will probably end up doing more housework.
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Suzanne Bianchi of UCLA and colleagues looked at trends in housework and child care over the past half-century.
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Mothers can even persuade their husbands to hold their babies in public and (less frequently) to help with housework.
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Plus, she already has four-legged pals, so fitting in with those housework-loving woodland creatures should come easily.
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Women do 90% of all housework, the highest proportion in the world, soaking up over 40 hours a week.
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We know that working mothers still do more housework than their spouses, we don't need to perpetuate this inequity.
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And Pepper, the humanoid from SoftBank, is already in homes across Japan, though it isn't designed to do housework.
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Ms. Kravas's exploration of domestic drudgery — here, the dancers' laborious tasks feel like housework — is, at times, a chore.
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I do the housework and water the garden, but I can't help noticing how happy and excited they are.
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In the absence of a sick spouse, women spent an average of 12 hours more than men on housework.
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On average, American women spend over an hour—65 minutes a day—more on housework than their male partners.
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An investment manager, he was doing housework around his condo, and he thought he'd been bitten by a chigger.
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In their absence, the grandmother performs all of the housework and cares for the couple's two American-born children.
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I now have great sympathy for all the housewives out there expected to cover those duties: Housework categorically sucks.
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He never took seriously how being stuck with the lion's share of housework ate away at my mental health.
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In Hungary, she told me, couples that shared housework equally had a higher probability of having a second kid.
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The nuns regularly starved her, locked her in cupboards and kept her out of school to do heavy housework.
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Turns out he's a neighbor who's decided to do a little housework without changing out of his office clothes.
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Some even argued that men need to share housework and child rearing, otherwise there would be no good sex.
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But there was a parallel movement, which began in Europe and spread to the United States: wages for housework.
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My husband does just as much housework as I do; he cooks, cleans, or clears the table after dinner.
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The type of physical activity wasn't critical -- it could be walking, jogging, even doing heavy housework or yard chores.
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Men in Japan do fewer hours of housework and child care than in any of the world's richest nations.
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Washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, and vacuum cleaners were still in the future, making housework a back-breaking full-time job.
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They do roughly three times as much childcare, and more than two times as much housework as fathers in 1965.
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Since then, inventions like the washing machine and frozen food have meant that people can spend less time on housework.
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Academics at Oxford University have shown that although women still do more housework than men, the gap has narrowed everywhere.
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People live in a tiny confined space and need to figure out things like how to divide up the housework.
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Even if I felt I was constantly packing lunches, I spent a mere 9.09 hours weekly on housework and errands.
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In the UK, the 1970s and 1980s sex workers' rights movement was deeply entwined with the "wages for housework" campaign.
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They were more often saddled with "office housework," like taking notes, ordering lunch or comforting a co-worker in distress.
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Dads are doing more housework and child care than they used to, and more moms are working outside the home.
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Married men now spend 1.1 hours a day on housework, the Michigan panel found, up from 55 minutes in 1983.
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Nobody loves to do housework, and vacuum cleaning has got to be low on the list of preferred household chores.
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Maybe that's because the pleasures of parenthood are outweighed by all the extra responsibilities, housework and, of course, the costs.
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That could explain why men's time doing child care has increased more than their time doing housework, the researchers said.
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In marriages formed before 1992, couples seemed satisfied to have the wife do most of the housework and child care.
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Consequently, women are held responsible for a greater share of childcare and housework, even after they return to the workforce.
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Whatever form of housework you didn't have the will to complete all summer is now moving forward at full speed.
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However, housework has really put a damper on my free time, so modding has been my main creative outlet lately.
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Now, that pattern weighs heavily on women, and not only because they do 40 percent more housework and childrearing, on average.
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In the US, even in households with children where both parents work, women spend nearly twice as much time on housework.
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The New Health Care Maybe family life would be more harmonious if we just outsourced the housework we disliked, research suggests.
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The Moon enters down-to-earth Virgo today, too, reminding you to finish your housework before you go out and party.
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I asked Silvia Federici, a founder of the New York chapter of Wages for Housework who writes prolifically on these questions.
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A majority of service jobs in most poor countries are generally limited to housework, mom and pop retail and the like.
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During a recent speech at the University of California, Berkeley, Pieter Abbeel played a video clip of a robot doing housework.
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Emily Howe, a corporate gender strategist and coach for ambitious women, wants women in the workplace to stop doing office housework.
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On an average day, 19% of men reported doing housework like laundry, cleaning and other tasks, compared to 20003% of women.
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So once husbands became ill, wives still did 7.4 more hours of housework a week than the men with sick spouses.
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Beyond TaskRabbit, service platforms include Thumbtack, for professional projects; Postmates, for delivery; Handy, for housework; Dogvacay, for pets; and countless others.
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It's cheaper than the Roomba, it's Alexa-compatible, it saves us time on housework, and honestly, it's pretty fun to use.
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While other women were relegated to housework, Bessie revved and roared through Florida's palm-tree-lined streets on her Harley-Davidson.
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I also loved seeing ideas in there that I wouldn't have expected from the time, like the Wages for Housework bit.
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They found that the parents did most of the housework and intervened quickly when the kids had trouble completing a task.
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Another found that parents' division of labor, particularly fathers doing household tasks, predicted young adults' attitudes about how to allocate housework.
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Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to find out what studies say about children who do housework.
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Stopping at the household doorstep, Mao's words and policies did little to alleviate women's domestic burdens like housework and child care.
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Some people think that women should stay at their house and do housework while men gets to study and get jobs.
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Even in families in which both parents work full time, women spend almost double the time on housework and child care.
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The sight of the little girl from Brittany who did her humble housework awoke in her desolated regrets and distracted dreams.
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Another tells of a young girl whose tears became tagimoucia flowers when her parents scolded her for not doing her housework.
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They raised funds as well as children, did the accounting as well as the housework, taught school and cooked the meals.
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Inspired, I promised my mom that someday I would make her a robot that could help her with all her housework.
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Setting aside the fact that sharing housework shouldn't have anything to do with outdated gender breakdowns ... honestly, what even is this?
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After the couple has children, however, they tend to divide housework based on which partner does more work outside the home.
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The well-intentioned and commendable, pragmatic advice that men should do housework seems barely to bring the Catholic Church into the 1960s.
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According to his daughter Margaret, Claudia Price became Colonel Sanders' mistress after she was hired to help with his first wife's housework.
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Just about any exercise — including walking or housework — helped reduce that number by an average of 20133 days a month, or 43%.
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I'm in charge of meal prep, grocery shopping, and planning the next week's schedule, and we generally split housework on the weekends.
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A World Bank study suggests that just two hours less housework a week could bump up female employment by ten percentage points.
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The results they found were pretty dismaying: Young millennials don't seem to have progressive views when it comes to women and housework.
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As the Merciers navigate KonMari-ing their home, Douglas begins to participate more actively in housework, like sorting and folding the laundry.
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One limitation of the study is that men tend to exaggerate how much time they spend on housework, the authors point out.
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This surely sounds like a boon to working women, who (on average) do more child rearing and housework than working men do.
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According to a 2014 study, only 19 percent of men employed outside the house do housework, while 50 percent of women do.
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My mother — and all women I've known who were raised in the 1930s — had a critical eye when it came to housework.
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I do almost all the housework and shopping because my hours make it easier for me to do so than my wife.
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If we aren't doing professional work, we're doing the housework that won't get done once we leave for work on Monday morning.
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The Gallup surveys on housework were done in 2019, 2007 and 1996, of opposite-sex couples who were married or living together.
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When a woman married, she increased her routine housework — the numbing work that must be done each day — by almost that much.
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Some of the added stress, she suspects, was tied to women's tendency to take on housework and extra chores after the workday.
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In Japan and South Korea, for example, women do roughly five times more housework, food shopping and other unpaid activities than men do.
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B. and I are pretty good about staying neat and sharing the housework and other chores, but today I put in double duty.
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" The friend says that Letourneau sometimes did the lion's share of housework: "She handled everything — like the money, the chores, all of it.
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Whether you use them for spell work or housework, there are enough varieties out there to fit just about every need and preference.
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One survey found that 25 percent of people who were divorced named "disagreements about housework" as the top reason for getting a divorce.
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The main measure of economic activity, GDP, counts housework when it is paid, but excludes it when it is done free of charge.
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And yet because we'd agreed it was all part of my job, undone housework at the end of the workday remained my responsibility.
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"I tell the girl to tell the madam that she will pay a little bit"—but by doing housework and cooking, not prostitution.
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The study also suggested that women who earned more did more housework in order to make their husbands feel better about the situation.
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The researchers call these tasks "office housework": nonrevenue-generating work that's low risk and low reward, but can require a substantial time commitment.
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The third study pointed to a reason: Socially, women — but not men — are judged negatively for having a messy house and undone housework.
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Women "want structures and policies that make it possible for them to combine family life — housework and child care — with career," she said.
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In another study of housework, using a smaller set of data, there was evidence that the gender gap in chores was shrinking, too.
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Spend Some Money, Save the Marriage Maybe family life would be more harmonious if we just outsourced the housework we disliked, research suggests.
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Light activities like walking or housework earn fewer points toward the total MET minutes per week than intense workouts like running or cycling.
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It is how we know, for example, that American women spend more time engaging in most forms of housework than their male counterparts.
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Isabelle, blond and 5-foot-11, has three children and a handsome husband who doesn't work (but still doesn't do his share of housework).
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For centuries, housework has been weaponized by men like Peterson as a way of keeping women busy, in their homes, and out of trouble.
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The same was true for participants who did not have grandchildren but supported their adult children in some way, such as helping with housework.
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During the same time frame, 39 percent helped with errands, housework and home repairs, and 33 percent pitched in to look after the grandkids.
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Men might dismiss the difference as a matter of taste, assuming, perhaps, that women prefer doing the housework, or value its fruits more highly.
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The son, who never did housework, had refused to go, but the judge sided with his parents and told him to pack his bags.
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On the other hand, watching counter-stereotyped TV is linked to more interest in traditionally "male" careers among girls and more flexibility about housework.
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But let's be realistic, the only thing any of us really want a robot for is housework, and that's what ATLAS is finally learning.
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That's usually what I wear to do housework, which is why I took pause during a recent rewatch of the 1988 movie Working Girl.
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Because even with a shrinking pay gap, women still do the majority of the housework and child care in families with two working parents.
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In Schlafly's telling, American women were the luckiest gals in the world, financially supported by their husbands and finding dignity in housework and childcare.
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A husband from the Lazio region of Italy is taking his wife to court this week, alleging that she does not perform enough housework.
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That carries a bonus for both sexes: Couples who share housework and childcare equally now report the highest levels of marital and sexual satisfaction.
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Help out a senior citizenHappen to know a few seniors who could use help with basic housework, getting groceries, running errands, or other tasks?
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Here are some easy strategies for strengthening your relationship on a daily basis, from saying "thanks" to putting a ban on talking about housework.
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Three recently published studies confirm what many women instinctively know: Housework is still considered women's work — especially for women who are living with men.
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Research has found that when mothers work for pay and fathers do household chores, their sons become adults who spend more time on housework.
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His father, a store clerk, died of an abscess when Moshe was 9, forcing his mother to do housework to support her four children.
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"Those who decided this system never faced problems of balancing housework and child care with a job," Keiko Ota, a lawyer, said on Twitter.
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And as far as the housework that can be hard not to notice when working from home, Frnka-Davis doesn't let it bother her.
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Boys 13 to 18 spent a little under half an hour on housework, it found, while girls spent a little over half an hour.
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January 17: Talk to your partner about which chores you hate and which you don't mind so that you can stop fighting about housework.
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Studies in 243 found that the happiest and most sexually satisfied couples are now those who divide housework and child care the most equally.
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I hope he has to explain who did the housework when he did his book tour and who watched the kids while he wrote.
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One woman Just met complained her husband spent too much time on Facebook and her daughters didn't help as much with the housework anymore.
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Fed up with the "back abuse" of constant housework, "I thought, darn it, this is more than I can handle," Gabe told the Tribune.
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I'm spending so much time doing schoolwork, TA work, my colleague's research work, and housework that I am not really working on my own research.
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"We keep it down to a minimum," said Donald, who has staff to help with cooking and housework, but no nanny in the traditional sense.
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Those who were connected went from watching almost no television to one and a half hours a day, and did even less housework than before.
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He works from home most days and sets his own schedule, which mean he's generally in charge of housework and cooking dinner during the week.
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In the case of Tess McGill's topless housework and these other examples, the nudity and sex scenes feel gratuitous, exploitative, and just straight-up superfluous.
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This is telling, given that women still do the majority of housework and caregiving around the world — though this "household-chore gap" is slowly shrinking.
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According to the American Time Use Survey, in 2017 on an average day 49 percent of women did housework compared with 19 percent of men.
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When dad takes leave, he'll spend part of that time doing housework, which sets a great example for kids, who naturally want to emulate dad.
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The same egalitarian attitudes that lead to shared housework may also deepen partner communication, which in turn leads to a greater sense of sexual intimacy.
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I looked at work, sleep, exercise, housework and errands, TV, reading and time in the car, because those were the things I was interested in.
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Instead of arguing about housework, for example, both feeling like we were doing more than our fair share, we could talk about it relatively objectively.
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They also dedicated less of their time to a number of activities, including travel to work and school, eating and drinking, housework and consumer purchases.
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But soon, he said, she was showing up hollow-eyed at breakfast, and became unusually slow to help her mother or older sister with housework.
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But after nine or 10 hours of work, the last thing I want to do is housework, which is why the dishes have piled up.
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Rose is in a wheelchair after a car accident, and Aunt Maggie is around frequently to help out with the housework and look after Nicky.
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Researchers marveled at this disparity in reported sexual satisfaction, especially since East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework.
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Women still do more of the caregiving — for children and for older people — and the housework, even when both parents work full time, data show.
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Despite a low birthrate, there are not enough day care slots for children, and women still do far more housework and child care than men.
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Her aversion to exercise only deepened, and for much of her life, housework and trips to Fairway constituted Ms. Jaffe's most strenuous forms of cardio.
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Akerman converts the story's feminist psychology into choreographic spectacle, depicting housework, sex, and family life with a gestural and directorial precision that renders them monumental.
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"We keep it down to a minimum," said Donald, 70, who has staff to help with cooking and housework, but no nanny in the traditional sense.
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In 2004 Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University and others discovered that parents thought that looking after their children was about as enjoyable as doing the housework.
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More than in the past, it is a fulfilling union between two people who collaborate (if still rather unequally) in child care, housework and money-earning.
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The Food Network and Newsy apps let you watch short videos so you follow recipes or catch up on the world as you do your housework.
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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women spend 150% more time on housework than men and more than twice the amount of time on caregiving.
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I was afraid of that so I was cleaning the toilet, I was cooking for them, I was doing everything in (the) house, all the housework.
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No matter how efficient we make housework, we won't free up women's time until we all recognize that their time is just as valuable as men's.
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But women also work in other arenas, "raising children, cleaning, housework, all of the things that women have traditionally done to keep society functioning," Leonard said.
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We're also now defining "work" to take into account the value of women's non-monetized contributions through unpaid care work: domestic housework, childcare, and elderly support.
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Make housework equitable—and, in addition to doing the dishes sometimes or making the bed, learn how to deep-clean a kitchen and bathroom properly.65.
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Housework and child-rearing have always fallen on women's shoulders, even during the Mao era, when women were held up by the government as men's equals.
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One recent analysis, for example, found that boys ages 22002 to 22014 do about half an hour of housework a day, and girls about 227 minutes.
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The problem is, housework is often overlooked as work, even though it is often as laborious (or in some cases, more so) as any paid job.
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The fair valuation and distribution of domestic work has long been a subject of debate, sometimes in the form of a demand for wages for housework.
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Another showed that women (and particularly women of color) are given more valueless tasks like organizing parties and taking meeting notes (tellingly, this is called "housework").
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She chafed at doing housework, even after asking for additional hours, and declined an offer from one of Ms. Krim's friends for a part-time job.
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Another found that sons of women who work for any amount of time before age 14 spend more time on housework and child care as adults.
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A 1999 study found that when a never-married man married, he reduced his routine housework, on average, by three and a half hours a week.
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Daré, who lives in London but grew up in Lagos, told her that there were girls her age in Nigeria who did housework for a living.
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By the numbers: Women who work more than 49 hours a week do 25 hours of housework a week, according to an analysis of government numbers.
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Contrary to this, women in opposite-sex marriages who work outside the home can shoulder two to three times more housework and childcare than their husbands.
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In an excerpt from "Fast-Forward Family" published in The Atlantic, three researchers write that even today, women tend to shoulder the brunt of their family's housework.
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A rich person living in London, for example, can't hire someone who lives in Manila, where wages and cost of living are cheaper, to do their housework.
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He's been working mostly from home this year because Hurricane Harvey destroyed the campus where he teaches, so he does more of the housework than I do.
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Women did indeed start to work outside the home and fields in Soviet days, but they also continued to do the housework and look after the children.
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In 2016, women in Iceland were paid less than 60 percent of men's earnings, and many women weren't able to work due to housework and childcare duties.
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In developing countries, for instance, investment in clean water and electricity eases housework, freeing time for mothers to earn money and for girls to go to school.
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One reason for the large discrepancy in total work hours is because the WEF included unpaid labor, including childcare, elder care, and domestic housework, in its tally.
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"Even if married moms are the sole breadwinners, when they come home they still do a significant share of the housework on top of their paid jobs."
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They got three meals, and they could work at a desk, exercise on a treadmill, watch television, do housework, and sleep while they were in the room.
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"Moderate-intensity activities include brisk walking, recreational swimming and cycling, moderate yard work and housework, and dancing, and may be much more accessible to initiate," Chomistek says.
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American fathers who live with their kids do 2.6 times as much child care and housework as they did in 1965, according to the Pew Research Centre.
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To be honest, there isn't too much going on in the village streets during the winter, so it's nice to have some housework to keep me busy.
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In one pollBut while men are doing more housework than they were in years past, research has found that women still pick up most of the slack.
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"It's mutual reliance; it's a two-way back-and-forth support, for housework, errands, getting the groceries, and sharing the tasks of running a home," she says.
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Focusing on housework that is traditionally gendered "female"—laundry, cleaning, and cooking—they excluded chores that are seen as gender-neutral, such as DIY or car repairs.
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In 1980, Italian women spent on average 1980 more minutes a day than their men on housework, but now that figure has been reduced to 183 minutes.
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"If you look at very early teens, they don't have kids, they don't do housework—they have the exact same experience, the exact same education," she explains.
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Yet across most marriages, they still do much more child care and housework than their husbands, and men still feel strong pressure to be the family breadwinner.
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"I think we've found that when the scale is tipped too far in either direction in terms of who does the housework, it feels unfair," Miller says.
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She expects reports of domestic violence to rise in the coming days, especially by women who join Monday's strike, which includes a call to not do housework.
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But a significant gap remains — women spend about an hour more a day than men on housework, and an hour more on child care, other research shows.
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Less-taxing activities like fast walking, housework and so on also afforded protection against depression, but it took about an hour a day to have an effect.
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While women have made great strides in the workplace, their quest to 'have it all' has been hindered by the increasing amount of housework they still shoulder.
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Paradoxically, wives who earn more also do significantly more housework and child care than their husbands do, perhaps to make their husbands feel less threatened, the economists said.
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According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2016, 50 percent of women reported doing housework on a regular basis, compared with just 21 percent of men.
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They were able to choose from 75 types of physical activity — from mowing the lawn, taking care of children, and doing housework to weight lifting, cycling, and running.
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Try working full-time and then doing the housework so your not-working-outside-the-home husband doesn't feel threatened, and where is the time for an affair?
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Girls still spent more time on housework than boys, even after the quota system took effect — but the gap between the two genders did decline by 18 minutes.
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Citing the American Time Use survey, Miller notes that women spend more time doing care work, such as taking care of kids and older family members, and housework.
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Women still do three times as much housework and a much larger share of their family's childcare than men, even when they work full-time outside the home.
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Ask for help with housework on or around Friday, because transcendent Neptune and attractive Venus will make a strong harmony, allowing you to tap into other people's resources.
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Power struggles at home are inevitable—changes are made to fairly implement an equal distribution of housework this weekend as warrior Mars squares off with power planet Pluto.
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One of the best things to do would be to get my mother a good rehab nurse, since I'm not around and since my father does little housework.
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Other possibilities, Ms. Pepin said, were that men created more housework; single mothers were more tired; or children did more chores when they lived with a single mother.
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In 1989, the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote "The Second Shift," documenting how even in dual-career couples, women did significantly more housework and child care than men.
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American time use diaries show that the time women spend parenting comes at the expense of sleep, time alone with their partners and friends, leisure time and housework.
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Her mother, a forceful and intelligent woman with no outlet for her talents beyond housework and child rearing, displaced her suspended ambition onto Eisenberg and her older brother.
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"Ultimately, if you're a woman or person of color, you must understand that you won't be considered 'twice as good' when you're doing the office housework," she said.
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A common pattern emerges in which dads start spending more time and energy on outside work and moms start doing an increasing percentage of the childcare and housework.
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It began at a time when, in many states, jury duty was regarded as an inappropriate task for women since it would take them away from their housework.
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But to get me through my cardio regimen or even spur a piece of what we homebodies call housework, its obstreperous pulse and novelty vocals do the trick.
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Politicians heard how traveler women and girls often face gender-based control, with girls as young as eight expected to take on housework and the care of male relatives.
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Why did a woman in a loveless marriage, tied to her kids and housework, think she could sell 300 million copies of books that she had yet to write?
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The family only allegedly gave her food and water after she completed housework and withheld food if she didn't finish it in time or perform it to their liking.
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In a practice known as "confiage", parents send their children to live with relatives who promise to send them to school in exchange for helping with housework, she said.
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The further her relationship with Everett progresses (she eventually persuades him to marry her after making sexual advances) Maud does less and less housework and more and more painting.
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In America, the difference between the time married working women and men spent doing housework each day fell from 218 to 21960 minutes between 232-21979 and 193-219.
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They aren't as neat as I am, and I try to be understanding about our different standards, but a lot of the housework in our apartment falls on me.
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Activities being neglected because Brits are overusing the internet include housework (reported by 216 percent); sleep and rest (224 percent); and spending time with friends and family (236 percent).
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This convention means that so-called "home production", such as housework or caring for an elderly relative, is excluded from GDP, even though such unpaid services have considerable value.
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Instead of returning to full-time work after she had a baby, she persuaded her husband to pay her to handle all the childcare, housework, and other familial responsibilities.
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We tend to assume that women are somehow "naturally" neater — this stereotype crops up every time the issue of getting men to do more housework makes the news rounds.
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We are the cool country with the cool dad who works out and isn't racist and who would probably help with the housework if he didn't hire a maid.
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Potential women candidates are 15 times more likely to be responsible for the child care in their homes — and six times more likely to shoulder the majority of housework.
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It was launched in Italy in 1972 to raise awareness of how housework and childcare are the base of all industrial work and that women should be paid accordingly.
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Not to mention the soothing nature of folding warm laundry or wiping down doorknobs and banisters and microwave doors, the way housework keeps you busy and leaves you tired.
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Studies have shown that men can feel threatened if their wives earn more than them, and that to compensate, men who feel this way might do even less housework.
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But the mom is probably right that there's something about mothers seeking help with the responsibilities of child care and housework that tends to rub Americans the wrong way.
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A special bond Felt is eternally grateful for her team of angels, which includes three close girlfriends who have been shopping and helping her out with housework for years.
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In terms of cortisol levels, men who did more housework in the evening were as likely to have raised cortisol levels at the end of the day as women.
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And I think, very often, women do put undue pressure on themselves because it's being put on them by others, to bake cupcakes, to do all the office housework.
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She found that most women, even if they earn the most money in their household or if their husband stays at home, do most of the childcare and housework.
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In order for heterosexual women to gain any freedom from the housework they are so burdened with, these couples should take notes on the tactics homosexual couples are using.
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New research also shows that men in families where both parents work, like Zuckerberg's, can strengthen their marriage by doing something very simple: splitting housework and child care equitably.
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Opinion Columnist In the discourse of the upper-upper, don't-call-us-rich middle class, an old stereotype of fatherhood — the dim, affable, useless-for-housework Pop — has lately been supplemented by a new one: The credit-hogging, pleased-with-himself Good Dad, who does just enough housework to pretend that he's an equal partner, and swans about in a BabyBjorn reaping applause from people who wouldn't give an overburdened mom a second look.
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Also subversive: the idea of women reading books that are escapist delights instead of "bettering" themselves via the male-adjudicated canon or, honestly, doing housework or tending to their kids.
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The play follows Leavitt as she paves her own way, wrestling with her ambition, religion, and smarts, at a time when women couldn't vote and were relegated mostly to housework.
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As Max doesn't know the first thing about housework, she leans on Beth (Lucy DeVito), a woman just out of high school whose fiancé is also studying at the seminary.
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There are also some studies, which are controversial but really interesting, that show that couples who share housework or share child care responsibilities more equally tend to have more sex.
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A different study published in 2012 found that whereas the amount of housework men did seemed to vary depending on how much they hated it, women experienced no such luxury.
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Researchers at Harvard have also found that when wives felt that their lower-earning husbands did enough housework, both spouses were more likely to report being happy in their marriage.
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My mom and aunt are at my apartment doing a deep clean because I won't be able to do housework for a few weeks, and S. isn't the best housekeeper.
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If you hate it when commercials send the message that housework is the responsibility of women and women alone, it turns out you have something in common with Meghan Markle.
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Housework, which she set up in 2010 with fellow DJs Gramrcy and Golesworthy, was set up with the intention of bringing DJs to Bristol who hadn't played there so frequently.
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It's the little things—your daily routine, hours spent at the office, housework—that all add up, and Sunday will allow for an intuitive change that makes space for efficiency.
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We aren't quite to the point where we can command our robot friends to complete all our housework while we sit back and relax, but we've made the first steps.
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Mr. Merlot doesn't make for a very talkative dinner party guest, and while he's a joy to have around, he winds up sidling Schneider with a lot of the housework.
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She earned $2 in exchange for doing housework after school for a well-to-do woman, and Morrison's perspective about her standing in her own household expanded through that work.
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By actively supporting working motherhood, France makes it easier for women to stay on the career ladder after childbirth, even if statistics show they still do most of the housework.
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They allegedly then forced the girl to do housework and care for their children, subjecting her to emotional and physical abuse, the Department of Justice said in a press release.
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At times, Ms. Ireland positively vibrates with the force of will that keeps Darja moving ahead, even after the factory closes, and she has to turn to full-time housework.
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My suggestion to my female friends that fathers should take half of the child rearing and housework responsibilities is often met with a surprised look or a smile of disbelief.
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My ex-husband and I split the kids' time equally between our households, meaning that now he actually has to do half the child care and all his own housework.
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The characters' hardscrabble lives are made plain by the opening tableau, in which the women of the jury are shown doing housework in the partitioned boxes of Bunny Christie's set.
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Male-female couples whose housework is shared have less strife, as well as greater relationship satisfaction and sexual intimacy, than those in which the burden falls largely to the woman.
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But the evil that lurks in Jackson's fair-seeming homes is not housework; it's other people —husbands, neighbors, mothers, hellbent on squashing and consuming those they profess to care for.
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I do most of the housework, and I spend those days trying not to kick over the floor bag, as well as struggling to keep my toddler out of it.
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Our mother was busy enough trying to keep up with us and with the housework; perhaps it wouldn't matter too much that we hadn't managed to learn it from her.
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According to researchers at Princeton, the University of Toronto, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, men doing less housework in heterosexual relationships is bad for women — and bad for the economy.
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Women may still do a disproportionate amount of housework compared to men, and many of us do it on top of our regular jobs — so it's time to share the responsibilities.
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Young Latin Americans are as likely to listen to salsa, rock or Colombian cumbia; for them, Juan Gabriel's music was what their mothers hummed along to as they did the housework.
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Family bonding on vacation is supremeIt can be difficult to spend quality time at home with the kids when everyone has homework and after-school activities and the housework never ends.
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Wives and moms tend to call the shots in most matters related to housework and child care, a reality evidenced by the ubiquity of "ask your mom" across space and time.
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But when she hired a woman Luisa to take over for her long-term sitter, she suddenly found it possible to balance things like housework, making dinner, and her kids' activities.
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A new study shows that men see dirt the same way women do, but socially, women are "judged negatively for having a messy house and undone housework," while men are not.
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Gerwig told the audience at the New York Film Festival that she was moved by a remark that Akerman once made about the importance of seeing images of housework on film.
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Only 28% of those whose partner recovered had to spend seven or more hours a day providing care, doing errands, and handling housework, compared with 71% of caregivers whose partners died.
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Furthermore, the financial advantages of dual-earner couples over male-breadwinner families have increased significantly in recent years, and an unequal division of housework has become progressively more damaging to relationships.
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The number of minutes young girls spent on housework declined 18 minutes in the areas with female representatives — and the gap in educational attainment of young boys and girls completely closed.
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AliceCan I just say, on behalf of all the married and co-habiting women on here, that it's housework and the division of labor that causes the most fights between couples.
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But these women are joined by more than their shared tragedies, as they all did what they could—sewing, crocheting, housework, coffee-selling, flower-selling, sex work—to scrape a living.
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As I've written about previously, there is ample evidence that women are still responsible for the majority of child rearing and housework, even in households where both parents hold full-time jobs.
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Once you've found yourself a regular slot, don't forget to plan what you want to do in that time, otherwise you'll end up drifting around, catching up on the housework or emails.
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Moderate to vigorous workouts (like walking at a brisk pace or running if it's not too difficult) tend to be better than lighter intensity workouts (like doing housework), for example, he says.
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Purchasing a home is often named as a good way to build wealth, but it comes with a lot of work — more than 10 hours a week of housework to be exact.
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Specifically, Apartment List found that per week, renters save 22017 minutes on lawn and yard care, 32 minutes on maintenance and repairs, 23 minutes on housework and 21 minutes on food prep.
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Her husband took just two weeks off, partly because he was on the verge of getting a promotion, but also because "being at home also means doing the housework," says Mrs Boruta.
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Andy pitched in however he could, taking charge of the housework and serving as a father figure to his niece and nephew while also attending classes at Metro-Boulevard Alternative High School.
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Surveys of American engineers and lawyers found that female workers were nearly twice as likely as their male peers to be saddled with "office housework", like setting up meetings and conference calls.
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Women are also more likely to try to deal with problems or arguments that arise in the relationship, as well as do most of the physical labour, such as housework, she added.
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Women don't just want men to do more housework and child care because such labor can be tedious and exhausting, they want it because men not doing it is hurting women professionally.
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Finally, it could be that in same-sex couples women do not feel obliged to do as much childcare or housework, giving them more freedom to fulfil their potential in the workplace.
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For now, I do all the errands and shopping, bill-paying, finances, childcare when Laila is home, and almost all the housework and cleaning, though Luke is very helpful when he's home.
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There's plenty of housework to get done and then, after lunch, we chat on and off, but as 2 PM gives way to 3 PM I can tell she is becoming agitated.
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We could have guessed that men who believe in gender equality would do more housework than men with conservative views, and it is not news that white conservative men overwhelmingly vote Republican.
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This also means that employees of color, and specifically women, often volunteer for work that's less glamorous — the office housework — to make a positive impact, or be seen as active and engaged.
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I hate housework and I am consistently spending under my budget each month enough that I've thought about hiring a service to help, but I just feel like that is so wasteful!
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The essays, from writers like Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Florence Kennedy — on subjects like aging, the double bind of racism and sexism, and the politics of housework — remain relevant today.
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I remembered where I'd played with my sisters and brothers, where I went to work with my father, where I fetched water from the well to bring my mother for her housework.
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A University of Texas researcher, Joanna Pepin, and her colleagues recently found that married mothers spend more time on housework than single mothers and have significantly less leisure time than cohabiting mothers.
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Men do a little more at home — they've doubled the time they spend on housework since 1965, and women now do less — but women still do about an hour more a day.
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This probably sounds crazy to the great many busy professionals out there who would be thrilled to spend a little less time on housework, but the study isn't just one loony outlier.
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Men do more at home than they used to, but women still do much more — on an average day, 67 percent of men do some housework compared with 85 percent of women.
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After collecting trash the other morning, she went home to do the housework, then returned to work at night, this time in the vast open-air market of Adjamé at closing time.
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After collecting trash the other morning, she went home to do the housework, then returned to work at night, this time in the vast open-air market of Adjamé at closing time.
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Despite some efforts to modify the work culture, excessive hours remain the norm, helping explain why men contribute so little to housework or child care: They simply do not have much time.
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This book, while providing a comprehensive view of how heterosexual couples interact and carry out housework and child-rearing, does not identify that this system works much differently in same-sex marriages.
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You would think that if you're doing the housework, then your time should take priority, but just see how that works out when you start vacuuming in the early hours of the morning.
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Medicaid also covers 51 percent of all long-term services and supports including a broad range of assistance with medical and personal care, such as eating, dressing, showering, cooking, medication management, and housework.
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In many ways, the show turned out to be prophetic; today we have printable food, video chats, smartwatches and robots that help with housework — and flying cars may even be on the way.
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Looking at data from the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers found that the busiest husbands and wives -- those who spent more time on housework and paid work -- reported having the most sex.
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That means it's likely that you'll find the man in your house parked in front of the tube after work instead of, perhaps, helping out with housework or taking care of the kids.
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Diane Coyle, an economist and author of "GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History", asks whether statistical agencies have not bothered to collect data on unpaid housework precisely because women do most of it.
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Given that many women struggle to balance the weight of domestic responsibilities with their career or public role, isn't it a bit much to be asked to do the housework in politics, too?
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While housework is unlikely to ever be your favorite way to spend a few hours, the 14 tools and products listed below will help make the job a little easier, and thus faster.
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Her title character, an Eastern European Jew in 1904 who disguises herself as a boy to study Talmud, finds other women, with their capacity to muster enthusiasm for fashion and housework, downright exotic.
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And according to one major, peer-reviewed study conducted in India, more women in government office leads to parents perceiving their daughters differently, assigning them less housework, and investing more in their educations.
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Suvari, 40, plays Nicole Brown Simpson in the film and it is told from her perspective after she grows suspicious of a man she becomes intimate with after hiring him to do housework.
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She had a special kind of feminism, which Joanna didn't appreciate at all, which said, 'I'm perfectly fine about doing all the housework and so forth, because I'm more competent than my husband.
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It was an important win for African-Americans looking for an alternative to housework in wealthy white homes, or for those who had seen fieldwork dry up in an increasingly mechanized agricultural sector.
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Men in the US spend an average of 2.5 hours a day on unpaid work, including childcare and housework, while women spend 60% more time on those tasks (or about 4 hours a day).
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A 40-year-old woman who lives in the town of Sonnino—which is located in Italy's Lazio region—is being sued by her husband for neglecting to do housework and cook him meals.
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In cities such as Lyon in France, Deventer in the Netherlands and Cleveland in Ohio, nursing homes or local authorities are offering students free or cheap rent in exchange for helping out with housework.
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These burdens pile higher when children enter the picture; men pick up an additional 12.5 hours of paid work, childcare, and housework, but women's work hours increase 21 hours a week, studies have found.
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What crushes birth rates, whether in Europe or East Asia, is opening higher education and attractive jobs to women while continuing to expect mothers to do the great majority of child care and housework.
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But since housework and childcare still default to women, for the most part, women are the partners who are usually tasked with scaling their careers back, with little chance of ever recouping those gains.
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He is clear that women continue to have it much tougher, still, for instance, being responsible for most of the childcare and housework, and suffering the fall-out of the male pathologies he chronicles.
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One was Betsy Warrior, a former battered woman who was a founding member of Cell 16, a radical feminist group whose journal, No More Fun and Games , advocated celibacy, separatism, and wages for housework.
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Plenty of research on gender roles among older couples has found women do the bulk of housework even if both spouses have similar amounts of time available for domestic chores, the study team notes.
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By examining their own experiences in a largely patriarchal world, the women laid bare everyday indignities, like being forced do most of the housework, as well as cultural myths and falsehoods about female sexuality.
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The World Economic Forum has found that just 63% of the wage gap has been closed across the world, while women still spend double the time doing unpaid tasks, like housework, compared to men.
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You're essentially inviting that person to do more of the housework, and that is not OK. What is acceptable is buying a robot vacuum cleaner, because you're saving everyone a whole lot of hassle.
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Falling birth rates in high-income countries have been explained, in part, by higher education and more attractive careers for women, who continue to be expected to do the majority of childcare and housework.
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Still, Londonderry seemed more interested in using the movement to draw attention to her trip than she was in carrying the banner of women's suffrage, or agitating for freedom from the drudgery of housework.
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Instead, all eyes are on Labor nominee Andrew Puzder, who will come up for a confirmation hearing Thursday, almost one week after revelations that he had hired an undocumented worker to do housework for him.
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While they found a convergence between the household burdens of men and women since the 1960s, they also estimated that, in 2010, married fathers spent 52% of the time on housework that married mothers did.
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The couple kept her at home, isolated her, forced her to do housework and care for their children with no pay and made sure she was entirely dependent on them, according to the criminal complaint.
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"With the proposed feature, children can exchange their playing time by doing housework or reaching certain [academic] scores," Tencent chief executive Ma Huateng said at a press conference, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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I've learned a lot, from the dangers I face on the job, to handling situations when a man says my only purpose is to do housework, or that I should go work in a restaurant.
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A 2017 survey by the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that Americans spend an increased amount of time on the weekends engaging in housework, food preparation, socialization, and, of course, eating and drinking.
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" Enter "Silvertown Plug-In": In the project's description, Quah explains that, "capitalizing on the untapped £1.1 trillion value of domestic labour to the UK economy, the masterplan is a communal housing scheme that performs housework.
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So this month, after Philadelphia's mayor sent us all inside, I found myself the tiniest bit grateful that our current circumstances had taken the choice, and thus the conflict and the guilt, out of housework.
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Elsewhere, in San Francisco, Justin Lin operates Envoy, a network of stay-at-home parents and part-time workers who accept jobs like grocery delivery, light housework and other tasks that don't require medical training.
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Another thing that's helped Wong's career as both her stable of work and family grow: learning how to manage housework and childcare with her husband, though she says it's far from a 50/50 split.
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On top of financial strain, working women also must tackle a gender divide at home: even when women manage to both work and have children, they still do the bulk of housework compared to men.
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Watson originally went viral with his video "How To Hold A Baby" in June last year, but he's recently released videos teaching mums and dads how to get their infant to do some damn housework.
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"I came here to be a tutor ... but my boss wants me to do housework and still help the children ... It is too much work," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Doha.
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Between kids, work, school, doctor's appointments, hair appointments, catching up with housework, and other family commitments, it is nearly impossible to find an afternoon where four moms in their 40s are all free for lunch.
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This week, a Florida woman appeared in federal court and admitted she held a Mexican woman captive for more than three years — forcing her to perform housework while trying to impregnate her with her boyfriend's semen.
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"Married women may feel that to be a good wife, they must prioritize housework and childcare ahead of their own leisure and sleep," said Joanna Pepin, one of the coauthors of the study, according to PRB.
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It is often hard-won, limited in scope, perhaps squeezed into brief chinks in a week dominated by the second shift of child care or housework, or tinged with the guilt of temporarily abandoning those duties.
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Our performance evaluations focus on our personalities and not our results, and we're expected to pick up office housework and do emotional labor for our colleagues and then perhaps we are told we are too emotional.
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The amount of time people spend on the internet is causing sleep deprivation, neglected housework and even less precious time spent with family and friends, according to the annual report by media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.
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The Lovot, an amalgam of "love" and "robot", cannot help with the housework but it will "draw out your ability to love," Groove X founder and CEO Kaname Hayashi told reporters at the launch in Tokyo.
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Women who outearned their husbands were more likely to seek jobs beneath their potential, they found, and to do significantly more housework and child care than their husbands — perhaps to make their husbands feel less threatened.
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Instead, the prosecution has asserted that Ms. Ortega killed the children because she was angry at their mother, Marina Krim, for giving her additional housework and for asking her to work part time for a friend.
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The Times' Claire Cain Miller wrote a great piece in 2018 on how same-sex couples divide chores — once same-sex couples become parents, lower-earning spouses tend to take on more housework and child care.
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Couples who live according to egalitarian values, sharing domestic responsibilities like housework and cooking, have long been seen as superior by most academics, journalists and public intellectuals engaged in the national conversation about the American family.
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Tanya GuyattCharlotte, N.C. To the Editor: To proclaim that women do 65 percent of the housework and child care because men passively "resist" doing their share demeans, dismisses and demonizes dads — and ignores decades of research.
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In the group of lesbian mothers that Ms. Goldberg researched, most of the nonbiological mothers, because they could not do things like breast-feed, said they deliberately took on other responsibilities, like bath time or housework.
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Housework had been done by maids in their mother's Hiroshima home (when Mr. Sasaki died at age 84 in 1974, Ms. Sasaki still didn't know how to do laundry), but a friend taught her to cook.
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"It's like having a full house with someone else to talk to and help out with housework," said Sebastion, now 20 years and stationed in South Korea as a combat medic in the United States Army.
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This balance works for me: I work three days a week, doing what I love, and then spend the weekend and two weekdays with my kids; we get to do fun things together, get housework done, etc.
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"Unfortunately it is our burden to have to go over this again," Vaginal Davis said in a high-pitched voice, referring to the subtle racism among the political left and the underrecognition of collective housework and chores.
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The sons of working mothers also tended to pitch in more on household chores and childcare, the study found — they spent seven and a half more hours a week on childcare and 25 more minutes on housework.
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Fridays are pretty slow days for work, so I love the chance to catch up on laundry and housework in between work tasks so I don't have to spend as much time doing them over the weekend.
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Daniel Carlson, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has shown that couples (whether married or cohabiting) who share child care and housework duties more equally report greater satisfaction in their relationships and in their sex lives.
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Nearly half (48 percent) of internet users said they had neglected housework, 43 percent said they had missed out on sleep or were tired the next day, rising to 17 percent for 16 to 24 year olds.
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Patriarchal capitalism has arguably had a vested interest in promoting the latter idea as a human universal: as the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich pointed out, with women providing free housework and caregiving, capitalists could pay men less.
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The protest idea was inspired by the story of Icelandic women who paralyzed their country in 1975 by not going to work, and skipping housework and child-rearing tasks, to protest unfair employment practices and wage discrepancies.
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The breaks between walking dogs and handling paperwork allow me to deal with housework during this time, as well, and since I am out and about driving around, I run errands and do all the grocery shopping.
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As national debates swirl around gender, the poll results reveal a deep ambivalence about changes in gender roles, like more women who are working outside the home, and more housework and child care being done by men.
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A survey in 2018 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, a think-tank, found that married women do about four times as much housework and three times as much child care as their husbands.
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Once my mother and I started each new sewing project, we worked on it for days, stealing an hour or two during the week from homework and housework and teaming up with my grandmother on the weekends.
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When that same colleague made sure to assign himself high-profile projects and rejected attempts from people outside his circle to get involved, I understood how stark the difference between office "glamour work" and "housework" truly is.
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At Their Leisure If innovations in housework helped free women to enter the labor force in the 22004s and 203s, could innovations in leisure — like League of Legends — be taking men out of the labor force today?
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We have been told that sex shouldn't be sold, and instead should be given away for free within the bounds of a relationship, like other labors that have been linked to womanhood, such as housework and childcare.
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And very often I think women put undue pressure on themselves because it's being put on them by others to bake cupcakes, to go too high up on the care personally axis, do all the office housework.
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I had no interest in entertaining remarks of how my poor husband was overwhelmed with housework in my absence, especially since no one cared how busy I was when it all fell on my lap during his travels.
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But the other was the fact that in 1900, the human race had a bunch of big problems — dimly lit homes, slow transportation options, deadly diseases, a lot of tedious housework — that could be solved with new technologies.
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Susandra, himself from Lombok, said local girls are often discouraged from surfing due to religious taboos about figure-hugging attire like wetsuits, pressure to do housework and fears that it will lead to wayward behavior, like casual sex.
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While Norwegian men do the most housework out of all the men surveyed—clocking up 72 minutes a day—Norwegian women are averaging an extra 78 minutes a day on top of the time their men put in.
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A 2018 story in Harvard Business Review pointed out that women of color in the workplace are asked to do "office housework" — the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep departments and teams humming — more often than white employees.
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Taking on more housework to try to advance your career while a colleague works on a single glamour project will leave you tired and stressed, with less time to work on things that may raise your own profile.
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"Next to housework, the thing that we most dependably hate about our daily lives is our commute," said Dan Buettner, the author of "The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People" (National Geographic, 2015).
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According to an analysis of government data by Noriko O. Tsuya, an economics professor at Keio University in Tokyo, women who work more than 26 hours a week typically do close to 93 hours of housework a week.
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There were some pretty significant product launches this year, and while we're still not at the point where robots are doing all of our housework and self-driving cars are handling our commutes, we're getting closer to that.
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With Nigeria facing its first recession in 25 years, rampant unemployment and booming population growth, activists fear more and more girls may be forced into housework as families plunge deeper into poverty and so-called agents seek out profits.
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So I'm not saying there's a choice, but if there were a choice, as a woman, you're much better off with a woman because in straight couples women are doing 30 to 40 percent more housework and childcare. Yeah.
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In 27, working mothers told the Pew Research Center that they spent about 14 hours a week on child care and 18 on housework, while working fathers said they spent about 8 hours and 10 hours on each, respectively.
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In late 1970, Ms. Rainone came up with a third program, "Consciousness Raising," in which seven regular guests gathered at the WBAI studio in Manhattan once a week to talk about topics such as marriage, divorce, housework and sexuality.
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Women often face more criticism over being too "bossy" when they attempt to be assertive, and women of color get less mentorship and assigned more "office housework," or tasks that keep the office running but don't lead to promotions.
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There is also is the small, secret part of me that kind of enjoys housework, the part that subscribes to Better Homes & Gardens and keeps a copy of "Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House" by her bed.
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Stay-at-home parents: Several Democratic presidential candidates are proposing paying parents who do the housework and child care through monthly checks or tax credits — an idea that has been gaining support from both the left and the right.
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" She added that she had resolved her own problems long ago: "Now I live with someone who understands that I'm not doing the housework, that my dough is mine and his is his, and that I don't want kids.
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According to an ActionAidreport presented to the United Nations today, women work a global average of four extra years compared to men—and it's all because of their larger role in housework, caring for children, the sick, and elderly.
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Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Lawless and Fox's study is this: Potential women candidates were 15 times more likely than men to be responsible for the majority of child care, and six times more likely to manage most housework.
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Throughout her letters, Wilder displays the same generosity and patience she brings to her children's novels, whether she is discussing the difficulties of balancing housework with writing or replying to a class of fifth graders who sent her fan mail.
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An African-American artist with a concern for feminism and social justice, Saar reimagines the washboard as a site of insurrection — a call to arms for the disabused women of color whose hard housework buoyed the lives of their wealthy mistresses.
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In fact, the more a woman outearns her husband, the less housework he performs: It's been noted that many female breadwinners pick up the majority of domestic responsibilities in addition to their professional workload to assuage their husbands' feelings of emasculation.
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None of this is to even touch upon the cultural disparities that remain in other arenas, such as the home, where research has shown that even breadwinning women still do the majority of housework, creating a double whammy of inequality.
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What We Were PromisedBy Lucy TanJuly 10Despite growing up modestly in the People's Republic of China, Lina has seamlessly adjusted to the life of a taitai, a housewife who does no housework and lounges in a Shanghai luxury apartment all day.
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"Now we want an equal and passionate friendship, which means that we share skills, we no longer specialize, we both share the housework, the child rearing, the breadwinning; we share values and we share our leisure time," she told me.
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"There's evidence that women spend longer on domestic tasks than men and I think they also do more emotional work — so they still do more housework and cooking and things as well as more emotional labour," Grundy told the Telegraph.
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Recognize how often you may attribute a binary gender to everyday things: holding doors open, paying for the check, housework, buying flowers… Take those stereotypes and throw them into a deep, deep, abyss where they will be swallowed up forever. 933.
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Our housework duties aren't really split up or assigned to anyone; it kind of just happens depending on who is home (this is usually me, fine), but if one of us is feeling lazy about something, the other helps out.
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The 30-second spot shows a woman instantly attracted to the animated Mr Clean character, who shows off his sexy dance moves as he does the housework, while wearing a tight white t-shirt and matching pants that emphasize his features.
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Other hurdles include a lack of role models, social norms discouraging women from speaking out, and the burden of an intense, full-time job in a society where women are expected to be responsible for housework, child rearing and elder care.
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" — Claude "When growing up, my stepfather treated me differently; he refused to pay my school fees, so I was working as a house girl doing all the housework while my sister and brothers that were his kids were at school.
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The pattern demonstrates how much housework is considered women's work, said the researchers, Natasha Quadlin at Ohio State University and Long Doan at the University of Maryland, who used data from the American Time Use Survey and the Current Population Survey.
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It's not uncommon in the United States for two parents to spend long hours working hard — but the one who works outside the home is paid for it, while the one who does housework and child care is paid nothing.
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In that postwar era it seemed that everything was just going to get better and better and better: Cars would have bigger fins, women's skirts would grow fuller and fuller; soon there would be jet packs and robots doing housework.
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Just like Walker's revelations that she does more housework as a wife than her unmarried self, women in Korea, myself included, often find ourselves raising our voices and omitting syllables—whether consciously or not—to appear more feminine, as society expects.
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Although it's difficult to draw a direct causal link, researcher Stephanie Coontz says the divorced women and men she had interviewed for her research said that conflict over housework and child care was a factor in their decision to split up.
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"The idea that a mother does more housework when she has a partner or spouse may sound counter-intuitive, but it's the reality in most American households," said Linda Jacobsen, a demographer and the vice president of U.S. Programs at Population Reference Bureau.
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"We need people to realize that gender discrimination can show up in lots of small ways," Ishikawa said, from how women are treated by their bosses to expectations that women will do all the housework and child-rearing even if they work.
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Procter & Gamble's cleaner brand's ad showed a woman instantly attracted to the animated Mr. Clean character, who shows off his sexy dance moves as he does the housework while wearing a tight white T-shirt and matching pants that emphasize his muscular features.
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Meanwhile, South Korean men hold the record for doing the least amount of housework among the men in the world's most developed countries — an average of just 45 minutes per day, or one-fifth of the time a South Korean woman spends.
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We weren't sure what drove it, so we decided to collect data on everything: how many hours we were sleeping a night, how long we spent on housework or child care, the amount of alone time, social time, commuting time, you name it.
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She also suggests a simple habit to pick up from the French: While in Japanese culture, dishes are eaten on many different plates, the French eat their salad and the main course on the same plate, further reducing the burden of housework.
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"I brought her because she doesn't follow my orders to do housework and because she was starting to go out on the streets, and I did not want to lose her," Marta Lidia García, 39, said of her 17-year-old daughter.
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But as Robert VerBruggen points out in an essay for the Institute of Family Studies, "The Myth of the 'Lazy' Father," when you add up housework, paid work and child care, married fathers today are doing slightly more work than married mothers.
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The fact that women who earn more than their husbands take up more housework and underreport their earnings may have to do with the pressure to maintain traditional gender norms: the idea that men should be the primary earners in a family remains deeply ingrained.
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According to the study, which was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, researchers found that married moms are more likely to sacrifice their leisure time and sleep in order to do housework like cooking and cleaning.
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According to this year's Internet Trends report by Mary Meeker, partner at venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, examples of contexts in which consumers want to make purchases but can't include: while at home doing housework; driving a car; or while on the go.
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First described by James Levine of the Mayo Clinic in the early 2000s, it refers to the calories you burn during physical activities other than sleeping, eating, or structured exercise—things like typing, cooking, gardening, housework, or even just shifting around in your chair.
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Meeting the needs of a newborn on top of managing the housework, while weathering hormone-fueled feelings typical to new mothers but foreign to me, including the ambivalence I felt having put my career on hold to do endless piles of laundry, seemed impossible.
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Altintas highlights another intriguing finding from their research: Men in less gender-equal countries when it comes to housework, such as Italy, have actually made much greater progress—relatively speaking—then their peers in countries where the labor split has historically been more egalitarian.
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In addition to advocating the broadening of family leave, Beaty and Anderson specifically target issues of gender imbalance in child care, including the expectation that working mothers work a "second shift," balancing the bulk of housework and parental duties with a full-time job.
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For example, before taking on something new, note to your manager that to be a team player, you're doing the bulk of the office housework — work that no one else would do — and ask to have that considered the next time you talk about compensation.
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When I asked her what contemporary feminists she admired, she named the queer feminist theorist Sara Ahmed, anti-work feminist Kathi Weeks, and the founding members of the Wages for Housework movement as a few examples, but said it's "a mistake" to have feminist heroes.
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The minority of couples who do manage to divide chores and child-rearing equally report higher levels of marital and sexual satisfaction, and more frequent sex, than do men and women in homes where the wife does most of the housework and child care.
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Our days are spent toting the kids to and from day camp, sweating profusely during our daily commute, occasionally venturing out of the air conditioning for a crowded concert or festival, attending one too many weddings, and catching up on the housework and laundry in between.
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According to the same research from Harvard Business School, the sons of working mothers also tended to pitch in more on household chores and childcare, the study found — they spent seven and a half more hours a week on childcare and 25 more minutes on housework.
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Wear RED in solidarity with A Day Without A Woman Male allies are also encouraged to show support by taking care of children and housework, or by starting conversations with decisionmakers in their workplace about how to promote family-friendly policies like paid leave or flexible scheduling.
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To a 20103s audience mostly composed of women who were at home doing housework and raising children, Ms. Nixon's early scripts for "The Guiding Light" and "Search for Tomorrow" provided an escape: a glimpse of dashing lives, handsome cads, passions run amok, dark secrets and terrible betrayals.
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"In the current study, we see the inclusion of activities such as childcare, housework, lawn-mowing, carpentry, fishing, and yoga as forms of exercise," wrote Dr. Gary Cooney, a psychiatrist at Gartnavel Royal Hospital in the United Kingdom in an accompanying commentary published with the article.
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Could it be Larry, the hairless, muscular, six-foot-seven, dark-green creature who has slain his tormentors at the Institute for Oceanographic Research and has turned up in the kitchen of the housewife, Dorothy, seeking shelter and offering sex, courteous companionship, and help with the housework?
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For example, in the data set on 4,860 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the variables on which young women and men differed the most included worry about weight, depression, delinquency, impulsivity, gambling, involvement in housework, engagement in sports, and a femininity score.
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The change came from boys, who increased their housework time by 29 percent between 2002 and 2014, while girls decreased theirs by 27 percent, according to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan, which has tracked a set of families since 1968.
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"Women have less time for on-the-job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours," Bloomberg reports of the paper, which was published in the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Previous research from Nordic countries suggests that better paternity leave and a change in social norms regarding the division of child-rearing and housework can help narrow the gap, for instance, by allowing women to return to work sooner and so suffer a shorter interruption to their careers.
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There's plenty of data suggesting that these women know they are breaking social norms, feel guilty about it at times and do what they can to bolster their husband's masculinity, such as doing more of the housework even if they are the ones working full-time, said Munsch.
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There are endless "initiatives" and "institutes" to "empower" women, almost all of which wind up being, as Wages for Housework movement organizer Selma James wrote in 1983, "jobs for the girls," middle-class careers for a few women telling other women what they need in order to be empowered.
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Second-wave feminists in the 1960s worked hard to reject housework and domesticity as the lot of women; their modern counterparts may now ask if we are sliding back to a position where domesticity is being fetishized without any thought to what else that implies about women's status.
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Jo is a kind of avatar for feminine discontent, raging at housework and men and the idea that her sisters must eventually leave her to get married and start families of their own — right up until Marmee, inevitably, instructs her to swallow her anger, smile, and clean the house.
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She said parenting burnout is so real that at times, she dreams someone would kidnap her for two weeks so she can finally get some rest from the kids, housework, co-sleeping with a toddler, food fights and everything else that comes along with raising two young boys.
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Except then I feel guilty about outsourcing it, even though I pay my cleaning person fairly, because disrupting the binary of "real" work as men's work and housework as women's work should not involve merely relocating the burden of the so-called second shift onto some other woman's back.
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Though I had amazing teachers and parents who tried to counteract it, there was an ever-present message that women were only suitable for certain jobs, that they ought to care about the housework and cooking, that their first and only worthwhile goal in life was to become a mother.
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But since women, on average, have lower incomes than men, especially if they have children, and they still do more of the housework, the burden of being a breadwinner is yet more onerous — even before you factor in the side-eye they get from neighbors and the spiteful comments from relatives.
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Every participant was given the Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13), which includes 13 questions about the person's sense of their own health and their ability to lift heavy objects, grasp small objects, write, walk a quarter mile, do housework or shopping, manage money and perform other activities of independent living.
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And so instead of returning to full-time work after maternity leave, I convinced my husband of an unorthodox arrangement: Rather than hiring a nanny or sending our 4-month-old off to daycare, I told him I'd handle the childcare, along with all the housework and other familial responsibilities.
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I stopped for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that my mother tended to use it as a weapon against me — say, when I couldn't even get out of bed, making snappish remarks about how my therapist would want me to try harder to do housework.
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STARBUCKS EMPLOYEES, CUSTOMERS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER NEW POLICY: &aposI CAN&aposT SEE HOW THIS WILL WORK&apos Bozeman shared some of the tip with her co-workers and said she plans to use the money for housework, spoiling her seven grandchildren and using the rest to help fund a trip to Ireland.
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In the episode critics have seen and viewers haven't, for instance, the show contrasts a job Darlene could take that would nevertheless force her to wear a demeaning, sexualized uniform with Roseanne's dependence on pain pills to be able to do all the housework her caring but oblivious husband won't help out with.
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I am too lucky to be offended — to have child care my earnings alone can't always cover, to work from home in a sweatshirt that says "I love cats," to procrastinate on paid work with housework, to cook dinner before the children are underfoot, to have a choice about all of these things.
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But I feel guilt for enjoying the work, because I worry that I've succumbed to the old gender constructs about housework being women's work, or worse, that I've taken the bait of lifestyle gurus who've gotten rich by rebranding mopping and scrubbing and organizing as fulfilling and even aspirational — and still women's work.
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Yet my father had written the essay in praise of Atatürk in his high-school yearbook, his sisters were pro-choice, none of the women in his family wore head scarves except to do housework, and I had never heard any of them express the remotest hint of nostalgia for the Ottoman past.
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The New York Times article "How Same-Sex Couples Divide Chores, and What It Reveals About Modern Parenting," written on May 16, 20183 by Claire Cain Miller, analyzes how marriages that do not need to worry about which gender traditionally does certain chores divide housework much more evenly- until they have children.
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This will be an important time to find a better balance between your public and private life, whether that means tending to your housework as much as you do your office work or spending more quality time with your family instead of posting selfies for your followers and obsessing over your likes.
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And then lastly, we see autonomous AI, and that is when AI gets arms and legs, maybe wheels, but they can move around, manipulate in factories, manufacturing, in farms for picking fruits, in commercial applications like washing dishes, and also eventually in the home for education, toys, and also eventually there will be housework robots.
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In the West, Putin's comments about women — such as when he asked a crowd at an economics conference if anyone had a "pill" to cure American journalist Megyn Kelly's supposed "hysteria," or said that arrested members of the Russian rock group Pussy Riot could have been "at home, doing housework" — have frequently raised eyebrows and accusations of sexism.
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But in a study we conducted with our colleagues Sharon Sassler and Sarah Hanson, we discovered one important exception: among the 1,780 low- to moderate-income couples in our samples who were married or cohabiting between 1992 and 2006, parents who share housework are, on average, having sex more frequently than a quarter of a century ago.
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Prior to attending the museum, I had gone through the press materials like a detective on the hunt for finger prints — I researched every technical term and proposed connection, jumping from an encyclopedia definition of the Jacquard loom to the history of Navajo textiles and the gender politics of categorizing weaving as housework rather than an art form.
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"Caregivers whose partner recovered were largely unaffected in their life satisfaction, unless the burden in terms of weekday care, errands and housework hours or severity of spousal disease that was lifted off their shoulders was similarly high, in which case they also became similarly more satisfied with their lives upon recovery of their spouse," Langner said by email.
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It transformed a huge swath of the South and not only brought cheap public power to the region but also produced nitrates to save the soil, restored local forests, creating a vast recreational area, moved local farming and housework into the modern era overnight, and created the infrastructure that made possible everything from the Muscle Shoals music scene to the Huntsville Space Center.
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They not only have to stagger through three-quarters of a year with another living being growing inside their bodies but then have at least two decades of housework to look forward to once that person is born—and yes, even working moms in Britain are still expected to waste the most hours of their lives cleaning up after everyone.
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Many of the modern slavery cases that make the national news seem to relate to domestic servitude: people being kept in a home and forced to perform housework without pay, like the three women freed from a house in central London after 30 years in 2013, or the 22009-year-old woman rescued from an address in the English town of Rochdale this past weekend.
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" On the "ideal worker" trope, and how it's harmful to everyone: "So there's absolutely truth in the fact that most mothers are incredibly time-stressed... If you look at time diary data, men spend a larger proportion of their time at work, and mothers or women spend perhaps less time at work but their days are longer, because they're still doing two and three times the housework and childcare.
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All of these seemingly disparate events point to the same conclusion that Toni Morrison came to more than 40 years ago in a New York Times column called "What a Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib": True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.
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