Word: housework
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STOP SHORTCHANGING WORKINGWOMEN. Social Security is a rare if not unique institution that pays cash for housework and mothering. It pays a wife a benefit at least equal to 50% of her husband's, even if she never worked outside the home or paid a penny of Social Security tax. But women who worked on and off at low-paying jobs, as all too many in the generation nearing retirement age have done, receive pensions no higher than the stay-at-home moms. In effect, the Social Security taxes these workingwomen have paid earn them nothing...
...your life falling on the floor," a matron tells a bride-to-be. Nattel's women get not only the saltiest lines but also the feistiest roles. Childless Hanna-Leah, the butcher's wife, is freed from disappointment by an ecstatic vision and demands that her husband share the housework. Faygela, poet-mother of five, travels to Warsaw, where she encounters a circle of secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish as "the dialect of garlic." Years later, one of Faygela's daughters converts to the new heresies of Darwin and Marx, and is arrested for distributing radical pamphlets. Another daughter...
...PAIN, BUT STILL A GAIN Two studies published last week show that easy everyday activities like brisk walking, housework and gardening can improve cholesterol and blood-pressure levels about as effectively as more strenuous exercises like running and aerobics. Body fat drops...
...number of students [in the economics course] raise their hands and put forth some of the very traditional views of the division of housework between men and women," Schor says. "The discussion started to spiral. It was a moment that reminded me how divided people still are about the issues that I teach...
...latter does offer valuable insights into the character of Chinese leaders. But those concerned about human rights, of course, are unlikely to take much comfort in the news that Li Peng, the hard-liner who ordered the Tiananmen Square crackdown, "is a good helper and often does some housework...