Article: Splitting Housework Without Splitting Up

The first phone call about housework came at 6:07 Wednesday morning and by 9:30 my Post-Haste voice mailbox was full. More than 100 people called to share ideas about what had worked for them and how we can promote fair play between the sexes when it comes to doing housework.

Many of the messages were from men who said they share housework, and that's good news. And several, including Michael Gary, who is single and lives in Fairfax, made the point that male college students who don't expect to share household chores with their mates might change their minds if more women took the initiative in the rituals of courtship - including picking up the tab occasionally.

Peg Schmid Odell, an ...

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