Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They worry about their homes and children. "Women can perform 80% of all the war jobs now engaged in by men," claims Dr. Carey P. McCord, medical director of the Chrysler Corp., "but too many women are being absent from work because they must catch up on their housework...
Escape. In Chicago, Walter Holberg pointed two toy pistols at a jeweler, got himself arrested, explained he was tired of doing housework for his wife, wanted to live in jail...
...Indianapolis, a woman suing for divorce charged that her husband kept his gun collection and an 18-foot fishing boat in the living room. In Chicago, Mrs. Frances Toler, a model, won a divorce after complaining that she supported her husband but that he refused to do the housework...
Maternal overprotection resembles an obsession neurosis, but Dr. Levy's 20 mothers were not neurotic. Practically all vere stable, responsible, aggressive, strongly maternal women. Frequently there was sexual or social incompatibility with the husband. Many of the mothers had serious responsibilities in their own childhoods, such as housework or taking care of brothers and sisters; some had been deprived of normal affection from their own parents. Any combination of these influences, on top of the natural maternal bent, was likely to produce overconcentration on a child. If the mother was over-stern, her child...
...England. Ensconced in their almost new $24,000 building, equal in comfort to most Harvard clubs, the men have a strong sense of common responsibility not only towards the property which they protect and the lives under their care, but for their own living quarters as well. The "housework" is distributed among themselves on a sort of Platonesque basis, and the 50-odd men take turns in doing the floor-waxing, window,-scrubbing, and brass polishing which keeps their establishment as spotless and shining as one of our new destroyers. Spare time is not idled away, but is spent...