Word: housework
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...intended to shatter the stereotypes of mothers as homemakers and fathers as breadwinners. In the hope of making their marriages happier, a few couples are systematically exchanging roles. Each couple holds a single job, with the husband and wife working alternate weeks. Whichever partner stays home does the housework and looks after the children...
...drug supply firm. "Our employer doesn't mind at all," says Johannes, "as long as there is always one Bulko signing in in the morning." In fact, it was Johannes who minded at first: "I was scared I would lose my masculinity if I did the housework and changed the baby's nappies. But that soon changed." Anne calls the new arrangement "marvelous," both for herself and for her son, who benefits from seeing more of his father. "He doesn't hang around me all the time as many other kids do around their mothers...
Workaholism, Oates says, is not confined to men. It can also strike females at home, in offices, in volunteer agencies, or even for Women's Lib. Afflicted housewives often overuse the phrase "Let me do it" while complaining of having to clean up after everyone else. But compulsive housework is not the only symptom of work addiction evident in the home; there is also compulsive childbearing, "one of the most exhausting types of work there is." The woman who has many children, Oates concludes, may simply be a workaholic...
...prejudice is to confess his own racism, so we are trying to deal with our own chauvinism." How? The general strategy advocated at most men's-lib sessions is to stop calling women "broads" or "chicks" and to take on more responsibility for birth control, child care and housework...
Others have gone even further-perhaps too far. Members of a Portland, Ore., group, for example, have used such phrases as "God in heaven, She loves us all." David Bathrick, professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, who began doing housework after his wife joined Women's Lib, is enthusiastic about his new outlet. "I really get a kick out of cleaning the bathroom," he says...