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...never wanted a life in politics. But her husband did, so she gave it her all. "I do or die," she once said, "but I never cancel out." She was such the perfect wife and mother -- pressing his pants, making dresses for daughters Tricia and Julie, doing her own housework even as the Vice President's wife -- that she was tagged "Plastic Pat." Washington sophisticates just didn't get it: that was the real Pat Nixon doing those homely family tasks, loving the life that had always been on the other side of the candy-store window. Far from plastic...
...Before, I wasn't ready to have kids because I had to get my head together," she says. "I'm in an economic class where I can afford child care and I have a husband who is fully equal in housework and child care and who is also a professor, so we both have flexible schedules. I've been able to combine a family and a career...
...government report released in 1992 disclosed that 74.5% of single women did not care that they were unmarried. No wonder. In households where both partners work, women spend 4 hours and 17 minutes a day on housework. Men toil at home for 19 minutes. No one expects that the new imperial couple will be tidying up the palace, but Owada struck a blow for female rights when she said she had her own legitimate expectations in life...
...between male and female wages will close. As it does, power balances will shift not only at the office but also in the kitchen. When both sexes have equivalent jobs and equivalent paychecks, it won't always be the woman who works "the second shift" of housework after hours or who stays home when a child is sick. Nor, for that matter, will it generally be the woman who receives child custody in a divorce...
...women's changing expectations have found that during those years the proportion of young women who planned to be housewives plunged from two-thirds to less than a quarter -- an astounding shift in attitude in the flick of an apron. Child rearing became less a preoccupation than an improvisation, housework less an obsession than a chore. Young daughters watched as their mothers learned new roles, while their fathers all too often clung to old ones. They were the first generation to see almost half of all marriages end in divorce...