Word: housework
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homemaker") and I respect my mother more than most people I know, I still have a lingering feeling that women who choose or who are forced into the domestic sphere are somehow shortchanged. But I am beginning to learn that in the process of feeling too important for housework, I have put myself at a real disadvantage. This summer, for the first time, I have experienced being a homemaker...
...1920s. Apparently, women social scientists in the 1920s were asking questions about juggling marriage and a career: "Were wives and mothers able to perform on the job? What careers did they follow? Was the married career woman endangering her husband's and children's welfare? Who did the housework...
...treated as family members, not employees. The rules are clear: au pairs are to get a private room, meals, two weeks' vacation and a full weekend off every fourth week. They are not supposed to work more than 45 hours a week and are not expected to do general housework or meal preparation for the family...
...channeling $17 billion annually by the year 2000 into many local programs, including those that would give women better educational opportunities, easier access to family-planning services and improved health care. Other proposals would finance campaigns urging men to shoulder more responsibility for contraception, child rearing and even housework. Says Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and the guiding force behind the conference: "There is a strong focus on gender equality and empowering women to control their lives, especially their reproductive lives." This approach drew immediate objections from advocates of traditional family planning, who were worried that...
...population problem. Advocacy groups and bureaucrats alike trumpet this conference as a breakthrough because it will focus on women's issues. In U.N.-speak, however, that translates into a catalog of desiderata ranging from appeals to eliminate sexual stereotypes to calls for men to do more housework -- nice-sounding proposals that are irrelevant to population control in many of the traditional cultures of the Third World...