housework

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• We need to think about what we owe each other at all levels of society, from how we divide up housework in the home to how we share the burden of addressing the climate crisis.

• The great work-from-home experiment of 2020 could have raised awareness in many heterosexual households about the frustratingly persistent gap between how much time men and women spend on housework.

• Bloom and his coauthors found that people spent about 35 percent of that saved commuting time on their primary jobs, and about 60 percent on all non-leisure activity, including housework and childcare.

• Cloth diapering fell out of favor as mothers managed the second shift of childcare and housework after their paid jobs and increasingly relied on daycare centers that required costly disposable diapers.

• A year of the coronavirus pandemic has spurred a new debate about how we divide housework and child rearing.

• So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

• Coming to the center gives her a measure of relief from long days filled with childcare and housework.

• What my daughters see me doing most of the time—the part they can wrap their heads around—is child care and housework.

• At an early stage of their family life, she learned her husband believed that “a woman should do all housework herself.”

• Jeff Ely, a game theorist at Northwestern, has traded massages for housework and writes his wife romantic anniversary blog posts.