Article: Coming clean over housework

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 ......depressed" if their house was messy. Kim...admits she does find housework therapeutic. "I...disorganised if my house isn't clean...done a load of housework." Housework seems to be losing...How Clean is Your House showing us how...generation of women, housework, and being ...

Article: Less housework but it's still a chore - for women
Evening Times;  July 20, 2006 ;     657 words ......we are doing less housework than ever before...to cleaning the house, women are still...a day doing the housework. You don't appreciate...until you leave the house! I hate doing the...every room in the house. I live with my...I do most of the housework like the cooking...

Article: THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT HOUSEWORK
Sun Publications (IL);  November 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ......to debate the division of housework. Science has given us an...each do 45.8 percent of the housework if they want to minimize...stays at home to manage the house, the ideal split is about...partner who works outside the house. Essentially, Bird's study...doesn't matter how much housework ...

Article: Perspective: Women playing dirty over the cleaning; A new study suggests women spend half as much time on housework as their mothers did. So is it down to the labour-saving devices or is it just that we don't care, asks Caroline Foulkes.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......as having a clean house. 'What are they doing instead of housework? Sleeping, working...than doing small housework tasks they are doing...dramatic things to the house. You don't see programmes on housework but you do see a...everything around the house, are having a go...men do a lot ...

Article: Men do more housework than women think they do
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  June 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ......work around the house. Women's average housework time fell by nearly...the details of housework, causing them...weight around the house, she hates it...still does more housework. "I think, 'I...contribute more to the house [financially...

Article: The artful dodge of housework; More men pitch in to help around the house these days. But women still do more. Will the load ever balance out?(FEATURES)(LIVING)
The Christian Science Monitor;  July 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......half the men say they do no housework, a new law requires men...to Do More Parenting and Housework. Assuming that husbands...and do things around the house. But from the wife's perspective...they're doing more around the house, it never seems to be enough...not doing my share of the ...

Article: Housework gap shrinks; Married U.S. men show greater willingness to share chores with wives.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 6, 2008 ;     664 words ......who fixes things around the house. Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco-ar...Men to Do More Parenting and Housework, said equitable sharing of...feels stressed out because the house is a mess and the guy's sitting...and cutting back their own housework, men are not picking up the...

Article: Fed: Aussie blokes wash their hands of housework
AAP General News (Australia);  June 29, 2007 ;     628 words ......wash their hands of housework By Catherine Best...and the man of the house is perfecting his...than twice as much housework as men. According...help out around the house. Add a few children...in a four-bedroom house with two cars in...squabbling over the housework, we're surfing ...

Article: Housework? Don't knock yourself out
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ......days cleaning your house, says Don Aslett...There Life After Housework? "Too many people...one all over the house. His advice for...way to approach housework is to clean the...prioritize what housework you're going to...Science of Keeping House (Scribner, $35...

Article: Two can play at this game Several strategies to split up housework, ease tension
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ......for dividing up housework are emerging. Women...arguments at his house, "are there any...efforts around the house (and women not giving...who he claims does housework more slowly. * THE...doing and clean the house for 15 minutes...irritation over housework, some men become...

Article: How hip is?housework; Anya Burgess and Jennie Lewis discover the cleaning tips of the stars.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  April 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......glamorous lifestyle -to do housework. She enthuses: ``I like to...Channel Four's How Clean Is Your House, where presenters Aggie MacKenzie...home spotless. She says: ``Housework is good for your figure. Throwing...to clean most parts of the house. So are we stylishly clean...try to keep on top of ...

Article: Housework done badly makes men look helpful
Dayton Daily News;  September 7, 2007 ;     490 words ......understand the definition of housework. Vacuuming the living room carpet is housework. Picking your shoes up off...vacuum the carpet is not housework. But, based on what happens at my house, there could be another...finishes doing whatever housework he thinks he's done, his...don't do any ...

Article: Until Dust Do Us Part: In a new study the dirty truth is revealed about men, women and housework: nobody really wants to do it.(Brief Article)
Newsweek;  March 25, 2002 ;     655 words ......children in the house, as women bustled...fight? Ask about housework and the division...did 40 hours of housework a week, men a mere...average 16. That means housework has decreased even as average house size has ballooned...hours of job and housework; women 51.) Everybody...Science ...

Article: Splitting Housework Without Splitting Up
The Washington Post;  May 14, 1993 ;     700+ words ......who said they share housework, and that's good...way to clean up the house is to have a real...really don't share housework. I've decided after...is not whether the house is clean but if Mom...husband, Bill, does the housework. "I have to try to...