Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem so at first, but after a while you'll realize that your first year at Harvard closely resembles a planned marriage. Out of the blue, you're forced to live with someone you don't know. The other person will expect you to do your share of the housework and complain loudly when you take too long in the shower...
...books of philosophy and poetry. Like all youngsters in the occupied territories, she has missed a half-year of formal education because the Israelis shut down government-run Palestinian schools as collective punishment for the intifadeh. Her mother keeps her inside the house for safety and to help with housework...
...have a little difficulty being a househusband," says Larry, who struggles to balance the powerful image of older, more macho times with current necessity. "But I love being with the kids. I also believe it is good for them to see me doin' housework, so they don't keep believin' that outside work belongs only to the man and inside is the woman." This is quite a change in attitude for a man who insisted his wife quit nursing school after he and Joy married...
Life is tough for Soviet women. Really tough. Overworked and underappreciated, most of the Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters...
...always felt a little split, like I'll never feel completely at home here." As middle-class Brazilians besieged by high inflation, most of the descendants marvel at the economic stability and the myriad modern conveniences the U.S. has to offer. "All those electric gadgets that make housework easy must give women a lot of free time," muses Anna Vaughan Zacarchenko, 70, who married a farmer from the Soviet Union...