Word: housework
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...work and start thinking about other things. Sure enough, it worked." Though she'll quit the Holiday On Ice troupe in three weeks, Peggy hinted at a short retirement. "I think I'll always be connected with skating," she said. "It's a change from housework...
...Connecticut, spent six years in the clarinet section of the Hartford Symphony. It has never occurred to her that composing might be considered an exclusively male occupation. If anything, says Kolb, "composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine...
...representative in San Jose, California, where the general strike was conceived and sentiment for it is strong, said yesterday that if all women refused to spend money or do office work, housework, or school work, there would be a dramatic "pulling of the plug that keeps the nation running primarily on the efforts of 53 per cent of the population...
...tells him to get lost. In other articles, Letty Cottin Pogrebin quotes 42 women on how to cool off an over-amorous boss and across two pages "the readership" praises "the unsung heroes" of the women's movement--who are, without exception men who help their wives with the housework...
...SEXES: Help with the Mop and Broom Many husbands are now assuming their share of domestic duties, greatly easing the burden for 34.5 million women who choose to remain in the home. Some innovative families have even formalized housework and child-care arrangements into "marriage contracts." Paternity leaves (unpaid leaves of absence granted by the New York City Board of Education, the University of Michigan and other employers) now mean that some wives no longer have the sole responsibility for the care of their newborn babies. At the same time, an Internal Revenue Service ruling that permits parents to deduct...