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...David Eisenhower concedes that Watergate is taking its toll in his marriage to Julie. "It's hard on Julie," he says. "In her public appearances she always has to be friendly. At home she will bark at me now and then." Mostly, it seems, about sharing the housework. "No matter how hard I try to reassure her that letting down on household chores doesn't mean I feel any less affection, I get the sense she can't understand that." Meanwhile, Tricia and Eddie Cox have had to endure a three-week geographical separation. From Christmas...
While adults were worrying about the effect of male-chauvinist reading on their offspring, the children themselves, some of them anyway, seem already to have absorbed the feminist lesson despite their biased primers. The first-grade daughter of a Berkeley family in which husband and wife share the housework recently noticed, while looking at her primer, a picture of a mother cooking and a daddy reading the paper. "Why is she working and he's just sitting there?" the girl asked. Then she looked again and said: "I know. It must be her week to cook...
...decided to try something modeled on the au pair system, in which families take in students. The girls are not paid servants, but they help out with kids and housework in exchange for room and board. "Everybody thought I was mad," Coffe recalls, but he was sure the idea could be sold, substituting old people for young. He decided to handle the campaign "as I would a noodle account" and set about placing stories in newspapers and on television...
...Have labor-saving appliances and gadgets really freed women from household work? Joann Vanek, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, compared a series of group time-use studies conducted between 1926 and 1965, and concluded that the amount of time housewives spent on housework had remained virtually the same over 40 years, despite the introduction of many labor-saving devices during that period. Actually, Vanek found, the new appliances did save women time in specific routine tasks such as food preparation and laundry. But most of the women had apparently invented new kinds of housework to take...
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