Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not suit society for women to be in the home. It is not economically possible, it is not convenient, and it's not practical. The wife economy is as obsolete as the slave economy." At the very least, Hardwick's "wife economy" has mutated?out of the kitchen, into the office, onto the assembly line?even as the wages paid for the new-woman's work range significantly below the male median...
...done anything for me?" It may have seemed funny and a little silly when feminists started talking about men sharing housework and wives began insisting to husbands that homemaking was a tough job all its own. But the joke may seem strained indeed to whoever is left in the kitchen. And, guaranteed, there will be more diapers and dishes in Dad's future...
Overseeing the execution of this mind-stretching enterprise in Jubail are some 1,600 Bechtel architects, civil and mechanical engineers, draftsmen and project managers. Not only must they supervise the performance of 274 prime contractors and more than 500 smaller contractors for everything from kitchen cabinets to multimegawatt electric generators, but they also must manage a multilingual work force of 41,000 laborers from 39 countries...
...Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, or maybe the Cleaver family of TV sitcom fame. Typical of the more lavish structures are three-bedroom ranchettes done in a kind of Arabic Southern California motif, with central air conditioning, parquet floors, and General Electric ranges and Kitchenaid pot-scrubber dishwashers in the kitchen. Prices can range as high as $300,000 each for the dwellings, though much more modest accommodations, including town houses and four-story apartment buildings, are also going...
...spring of 1933, Day printed the first edition of the Catholic Worker, proclaiming this gospel from headquarters in the kitchen of her apartment. Next came the implementation: hospices or "houses of hospitality" for the dispossessed, the Workers' School, the farm communes. By 1935 the circulation of the Catholic Worker had risen from 2,500 to 110,000. By 1937 the hospices were feeding a thousand...