Word: householders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This was the first year that Harvard had the series, and it will continue to grow much more over the next few years," says Avery, adding that she would like to see the Women's Initiative become "a household word...
Even as early as 1879, Heinz touted the benefits of its ready-made catsup with this ad: "For the blessed relief of mother and other women of the household." In 1953, a year before Ray Kroc raised McDonald's now ubiquitous Golden Arches, a Swanson food technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy...
...problem, Strober said after her speech, was not the monetary sum, but the principle of the settlement itself. Mrs. Wendt, who sued for 50 percent of the household's assets, has, according to Strober, "gotten a backlash for what many have called greed, but is genuinely sincere in her quest for compensation for wives' work." Strober said she established the Institute for Equality in Marriages with this quest in mind...
...context of her speech, Strober cited Mrs. Wendt's work in providing companionship, sexual partnership and emotional support, as well as caring for the couple's children, cooking, cleaning and taking care of other household responsibilities, as grounds for her entitlement to half of the couple's assets...
...women who still expend the psychic energy that keeps a household going (Is Dave & Buster's right for Ethan's birthday? Christmas here or at my sister's?). As for chores, let's define the term. A chore is the thing that has to be done right now or all hell breaks loose. A chore is putting in an extra load of laundry or cleaning up after the kids before you get rec-room Pompeii. It's not installing an antique doorknob, planting tomatoes or grilling salmon for company, which are fun. Hobbies--surfing the Web, working out, tinkering with...