Article: Housework 'is so good for you'.(News)

Article: Housework 'is so good for you'
Birmingham Mail;  April 10, 2008 ;     51 words ...THERE'S no excuse for men now - just 20 minutes of housework a week boosts moods while regular exercise in middle age...ageing, according to new research. Doing 20 minutes of housework or gardening a week can reduce feelings of psychological distress and lift spirits, said researchers...

Article: Truce declared in war over housework, study finds Men are pitching in more, research says, while everyone is worrying about it less
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ......darks, the contention about who cleans up. Housework is hell. But a new study of housework over 30 years indicates that the warfare may...because, well, no one seems to be doing much housework anymore. The reason? We no longer believe...

Article: HOLD THE HOUSEWORK IT'S A DIRTY JOB, AND TO AVOID CHORE WARS, SOME COUPLES JUST DON'T DO IT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  November 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......about who cleans up. But a new study of housework over 30 years indicates that the warfare...well, no one seems to be doing much housework anymore. A truce. The reason? We no longer...While there is still someone doing housework, much less of it is being performed in...

Article: Coming clean over housework
The Press;  April 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ......things test the modern marriage as much as housework. It wasn't much of an issue for us when...hours to keep the money coming in. The housework just didn't get done. But now we have...engrained and one of these is the notion that housework is the woman's responsibility. Even more...

Article: Housework done badly makes men look helpful
Dayton Daily News;  September 7, 2007 ;     490 words ......blockbuster conclusion: Men do less housework than women. What's more, the study found, married men do even less housework than unmarried men who are cohabiting...good reasons why married men do less housework than men who are involved in the...

Article: Happiness is. . . a spot of housework
The Northern Echo;  April 26, 2006 ;     401 words ...We're not sure whether housework really is better than sex, but there...great antidote to stress HOORAH for housework - it could be better than Valium...we have a lot of happy spiders - housework is not my favourite pastime. Yet...

Article: Can cleaning the house make women truly happy? HOUSEWORK, it is claimed, is the new therapy and can make you happy. But is it just a conspiracy to keep women in their place? ANN FOTHERINGHAM reports Liz, Kylie and Halle love it and Anthea swears by it. . .
Evening Times;  April 25, 2006 ;     616 words ......rarely allowed to settle. Kim, 29, loves housework and spends more than an hour every day...that far, but she admits she does find housework therapeutic. "I feel my life is completely...I feel calm after I've done a load of housework." Housework seems to be losing its Cinderella...

Article: REGULAR HOUSEWORK BURNS CALORIES.(AT HOME)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  April 7, 2001 ;     345 words ......Infanti Q: Are there any health benefits to doing housework? A: Housework may actually help relieve stress, according to Michael...biofeedback therapist. ''As soon as you start doing housework, you lose that sense of dread that you are not doing...

Article: Women`s 'Genes' make them do more housework and Posh is dirtier than house proud Becks!
M2 Presswire;  June 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......2003-Comfort: Women`s 'Genes' make them do more housework and Posh is dirtier than house proud...that proves just how high you score at housework - and many think women have higher HAQs...more important work to do` to be doing housework; have far lower housework standards than...

Article: HOUSEWORK AND THE WAGES OF YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED, AND OLDER WORKERS
Contemporary Economic Policy;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Dynamics to examine whether the effect of housework time on wages differs among these age groups...the authors find consistent evidence of a housework effect on wages. Each additional hour of housework reduces their wages by 0.1-0.4%. Additionally...

Article: THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT HOUSEWORK
Sun Publications (IL);  November 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ......couples have to debate the division of housework. Science has given us an answer, and...wives should each do 45.8 percent of the housework if they want to minimize their personal...said that it doesn't matter how much housework there is; just how it's divided up. Dividing...

Article: WE'RE NAKED DOMESTIC GODDESSES; This week the Mail unwittingly laid bare a new social phenomenon: countless British women LOVE doing housework in the nude. Here, a few explain why...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......like nothing better than to do their housework in the nude. The discovery was made when...women to admit they, too, like to do the housework in the nude. All spoke of a feeling of...then take off everything else! I do my housework totally nude - all my hoovering, polishing...

Article: Less housework but it's still a chore - for women
Evening Times;  July 20, 2006 ;     657 words ......up their Hoovers - we are doing less housework than ever before. Yet when it comes to...average of two hours 22 minutes per day on housework last year - half an hour less than in...women spent some time each day during housework, compared with 86- per cent and 96-per...

Article: Dirty Britain shirking housework
The Independent - London;  August 11, 1999 ;     378 words ...NO ONE is doing the housework. Families in the 1990s spend much...the workplace. Women are doing less housework than ever because they are working...have found that one- fifth of the housework went undone in 1995 compared with...