Word: housework
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...hard-pressed American house wife may already have suspected the outcome of Robinson's research into the laborsaving qualities of clothes washers, dishwashers, and other automatic devices at home. "The expectation that time on housework would decrease with the advent of more household appliances is not supported by the data," he says dryly...
...only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up. They simply feared that if they lost the lotus they would lose their man. As it turned out, most men were secretly pleased to have a wife who could also stand up and do housework...
...would you like to do your husband a big favor?" cooed the radio ad. "It doesn't involve more cooking or housework." With that come-on, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. took into the kitchen its urgent plea for more engineers, draftsmen and designers: "Just mention Dravo to him when he gets home tonight...
Quite a few housewives more or less cheerfully give up the struggle. "The house isn't a burden because I haven't let it become so," says Mrs. Alden G. Pearce of Beverly Hills. "Housework is like whisky-it keeps." Adds one Van Nuys, Calif., housewife: "I would be completely ashamed if any of my friends caught me off guard with my house completely tidy and spotless. It would look as though I didn't have anything better to do than stay home and clean...
...about the Friedan argument except its language. Her book, in fact, is merely one more pronunciamento of the 20th century feminist movement. It owes a consider able debt to that formidable French non-housekeeper, Simone de Beauvoir, who in The Second Sex insisted that any woman who submits to housework betrays "a kind of madness bordering on perversion...