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Posts Tagged ‘housework’
Is There Anything Worse Than Losing One’s Maid?
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Ah, how I love Downton Abbey! (I’ve just finished Season Two, so no spoilers, please!) Yes, the upper classes providing for the lower classes by creating jobs for them as servants. How civilized. Talking with he-who-doesn’t-want-to-be-named, I was marveling at how it must have felt to have someone do everything for you: cooking, laying out your clothes, cleaning, laundry. And then it struck me.
It’s not all that different for about half the people in this country. For while Lord and Lady Crawley and their family had scads of footmen, maids and valets, so do many American men. Only instead of being called servants, they’re called “wives”. (more…)
Tags: division of labor, household chores, housework, men, women over 40, women over 50
Posted in Family, My Pet Peeves | 6 Comments »
Clean Up Woman
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Now, here was a surreal experience.
I won a free house cleaning a couple of years ago at a Chamber of Commerce event. Great, I thought. It would be nice to have someone clean my house before the holidays, right?
Wrong. (more…)
Tags: Babedom, cleaning, cleaning house, cleaning service, dirt, Felix Unger, groceries, housewife, housework, ironing, laundry, Relationships, shopping, women
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Bad, Bad Girl
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Remember the good old days when people actually talked about “Women’s Liberation”? Sure, we still hear about libbers, but for the most part, everyone – men in particular – thinks equal rights for women is an antiquated notion because women have all the advantages anyway. (I can just see the guys nodding and the women rolling their eyes.)
Yes, most men (and plenty of women) believe that inequality between the sexes is a thing of the past Sure, in 1967 men earned 167.5% more than women. . . but didn’t they deserve it? (more…)
Tags: afirmative action, housework, libbers, men, stay-at-home moms, women's liberation, working moms
Posted in Career | 3 Comments »
