Word: housework
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...people scrub the floors, wash the clothes or chip the baked-on crud off casserole dishes. Like most of the 273 participants in a 1998 University of Maryland study that found mothers spend slightly more time now with their children than they did in 1965, I cut back on housework to protect time with my kids...
...proud of doing well. Kids armed with a scrub brush will learn too. But for you, the ennobling work may be chores like baking with children or helping an ailing neighbor with yard work. Folbre had a special message for parents of daughters: Think twice before teaching them that housework is an essential part of their future. You want to avoid imposing a higher standard on girls than on boys, Folbre said, "because women already do the vast majority of the housework...
...Researchers say the perception that women who didn't work outside the home devoted all their time to their kids was a myth. Those women were cooking, cleaning, socializing with their friends and doing other non-child related activities. Today's working women are more likely to put off housework, sleep fewer hours and make a high priority of spending one-on-one time with their children...
...couples who live together before the wedding share household chores more evenly than couples who don't cohabit before tying the knot--at least in Australia. A study at the University of Queensland found that married couples use a more traditional division of labor, with the woman doing the housework and the man taking on the more manly outdoor tasks. Cohabiting couples, however, tend to have a more egalitarian and liberal arrangement, and many of those patterns carry over into the marriage...
...many dual-career families, both parents are victims of what Williams calls "the great American speedup." The resulting stress falls disproportionately on mothers, who continue to shoulder the majority of child care and housework. When pressures reach the bursting point, married mothers, who earn 69% of what married fathers earn and may face gender-based hurdles to reaching their full professional potential, opt to reduce or eliminate their paid work...