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...WEDDING-BELL BLUES: Marriage is a raw deal for women, says Susan Maushart, the author of "Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women" (Bloomsbury; March). According to Maushart, whether wives are employed or not, they still perform an astounding share of the physical, emotional, and organizational labor in marriage - everything from housework to "sex work." It's not an accident, she says, that women initiate three-quarters of all divorces. If family life is worth saving, she says, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Says blurber Pepper Schwartz, author and Ph.D., "Wifework is a welcome corrective...
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