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. . .

THERE'S not a thing out of place in Kim Maxwell's beautiful Paisley home. Windows gleam, the floors are so clean you could eat your dinner off them, and the dust is rarely allowed to settle.

Kim, 29, loves housework and spends more than an hour every day doing it. She admits to getting sudden urges to clean out her cupboards with the kind of excitement most people reserve for discovering they've won the Lotto.

And if a new survey of 2000 British women is to be believed, she's not alone.

The online research, commissioned by Discovery Home and Health, found that 46-per cent of those questioned described themselves as

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