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Article: Two can play at this game Several strategies to split up housework, ease tension
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 14, 2005
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A funny thing is happening on the way to sexual equality: Some
quirky new strategies for dividing up housework are emerging. Women's
expanding role as breadwinners is altering old ways of splitting up
household chores.
Now that home-and-hearth are no longer automatically women's lot,
how should couples divide duties? "Short of a housekeeper," wonders
Eric Wilcox, a Lexington Park, Md., information analyst who says
chores are the main cause of arguments at his house, "are there any
creative ideas out there?"
Some couples are breaking new ground, based on e-mail responses to
my recent column on men stepping up their efforts around the house
(and women not giving them credit): A sampling:
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