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Where does the time go?(sharing household labor)
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Regional Review
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January 1, 2005
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- Conaway, Carrie
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HOUSEHOLD LABOR IS ONE OF the primary battlegrounds over which the work-family conflict is fought. No matter how much time is spent at work, at the end of the day the house has to be reasonably clean, the kids fed, the yard mowed, and the shopping done. With a limited amount of time in the day, every family has to negotiate who will do which tasks and for how long.
For years, women have gotten the short end of this stick. In 1965, the heyday of the stay-at-home mom, women did an average of 30 hours of household labor per week--six times the 5 hours per week men logged. What little household labor men did was concentrated on repair and maintenance work, while women were ...
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