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...work equations are ever resolved, they may even help answer a question some men now ask only with amusement: "Have women's rights done anything for me?" It may have seemed funny and a little silly when feminists started talking about men sharing housework and wives began insisting to husbands that homemaking was a tough job all its own. But the joke may seem strained indeed to whoever is left in the kitchen. And, guaranteed, there will be more diapers and dishes in Dad's future...
...divorce. The discussion is as scientifically fruitless as the rest of Bell's case studies, but it has the advantage of immediacy, and thus has far more substantial emotional impact. Here is the former football star struggling to understand his wife's demands to share in child care and housework; here is the aspiring professor putting aside his own career goals to enable his second wife to realize hers. Here, above all, is a sensitive young man daring to be honest with himself and to seek out meaningful changes in his own way of life so that others might benefit...
...cadence of Randy Newman's lovely score, the Family takes center stage-a family as all-American as the Smiths in Meet Me in St. Louis. Father (James Olson) chats of his business successes; Mother (Mary Steenburgen) presides over the housework with quiet grace; Younger Brother (Brad Dourif) dreams of love with a showgirl. But there is something rancid about this slice of apple pie. The pauses at Sunday dinner are laced with anxiety; the ticking of the grandfather clock sounds like the prelude to an explosion of neurotic energy. The detonator...
...whole motto was unity in all phases of life," Scheper adds. Which translates into housework for Paul, and a lot of football games to go to for Gigi. But that's okay, because she loves football...
While I did the housework, Christopher would compose poems, and the sun whould shine into the windows of our cheery little home all day. There would be a number of children with blond hair and pert, turned-up noes and English accents born to us, and the burden of Jewishness would be lifted from me because I was the mother of these angelic children...