Word: housework
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...similar enterprise attracted much attention some time ago when Sarah Lawrence College girls helped dormitory funds by doing their own housework. A somewhat similar arrangement, was recently adopted at the 'Cliffe...
...housewife have received little attention from medical researchers (who are mostly men, of course). Last week, meeting in Philadelphia, women doctors of the Medical Women's International Association gave the subject a thorough going-over in a day's discussion of "The Pathology and Hygiene of Housework...
...first trouble, reported Austria's Helene Stourzh-Anderle, is that housework is grossly underestimated: "Other members of the household often do not discover that there is a housewife until something goes wrong." Besides lack of appreciation, housewives the world over suffer from the repetitious monotony of their tasks. Britain's Dr. Dagmar C. Wilson found in a survey of 194 homemakers that 79% complained of tiredness, anxiety and depression...
...good word for housework came from another British delegate. Said Dr. Nina Kellgren: "There is no reason why housework [properly done] should produce disorders in joints, muscles and tendons, [because] the movements involved in housework are varied and include all the joints of the body, and are therefore essentially healthy...
...full-blooded Indian brave on the nearby Huron reservation. As a dark, pretty girl with pigtails, she went to Fair Valley public school, later married Farmer Don Mclsaac and bore him eight children. Now a stout, cheerful woman of 48, she still works on the farm, does her own housework, looks after her husband and six surviving children...