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...conference: ratifying the document on "forward-looking strategies." In one section of the report, the members urge their countries to put an economic value on the work of women who raise families, keep house and grow crops. The action was inspired by the London-based International Wages for Housework Campaign, whose organizers attended the NGO forum. The group of activist homemakers has called for a oneday, worldwide housework strike on Oct. 24 to demand government salaries for cooking, cleaning and child care. As radical as the notion may appear, it dramatizes a discouraging fact: domestic labor, seen everywhere as women...
...that the five most positive activities for these women were (in descending order) sex, socializing, relaxing, praying or meditating, and eating. Exercising and watching TV were not far behind. But way down the list was "taking care of my children," which ranked below cooking and only slightly above housework...
This wistful tale in verse, lyrically illustrated by the writer's husband, tells how Belle, a neglected child of privilege, befriends her housekeeper Bea in lieu of absentee parents. Day in, day out, the pair do gardening, shopping and housework together, punctuated by regular outings to the house's beachfront--"Belle and Bea, by the sea, hand in hand." The tact with which Bea fills a maternal role is touching, the warmth of their bond palpable. One day Belle ventures onto the beach by herself and chases her big red ball into the sea. A crisis ensues that teaches...
...show's milieu can be phony, the resentment it taps into is not. When a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that working men still do less housework than working women, we should have seen the success of Housewives coming. And men aren't the only villains. There are also women who righteously judge other women: the local gossip, the neighbor who chides Lynette over how she disciplines her kids. None too subtly, these bad women are piggy looking and dowdy, unlike the lissome, likable Huffman and Hatcher. It's not the most feminist way of drawing distinctions...
...pressures given the long hours of working couples," says sociologist Arlie Hochschild, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, found that through the mid-'80s, women still did the lion's share of cleaning. "I think the ideal of shared housework has caught...