How To Use Housework In A Sentence
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My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework.
Sewing Simple Clothing
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While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup.
Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
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Even the seemingly laborious housework became enjoyable when there was no time pressure.
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Making the fresh soda bread, getting the dinner, and doing her housework was her joy.
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Helen always worked hard and when she came home on weekends she helped Mother with the endless housework.
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Violent husbands offer excuses that range from the wife not doing housework, her frequent visits to her parents' home, or refusing the husband's request for sexual congress.
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She hasn't been feeling well lately and she let the housework slide.
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Women still do twice as much housework as men Women do twice as much housework as men, and the bulk of the most dreaded chores.
Times, Sunday Times
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kept from her housework by gabby neighbors
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This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.
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She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
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Housework is low on her list of priorities.
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She found that the physical effort needed to get the shopping and housework done was just too much and she began having more angina attacks.
Coping with Angina
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You can even benefit from time spent doing routine aerobic activities such as gardening or housework.
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She spends her day doing housework, watching television, reading, and so on.
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It wouldn't hurt you to help with the housework occasionally.
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Q. How many times a week do you do mildly energetic activity such as gardening, light housework or repairing things?
The Sun
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Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
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They cook their own meals but they share the housework.
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Researchers in Britain have found there is no evidence that housework has any health benefits.
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It pointed out that one and a half million women would have to be drafted into war industry from housework and from less essential work.
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He pays lip - service to feminism but his wife still does all the housework.
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Ellen Malos, in her introduction to "The Politics of Housework", provides a summary of the debates.
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Wife Swap just wanted to know who did the cleaning, housework and shopping.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is attentive and thoughtful, always willing to do his share of the housework and invariably cheerful.
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After lunch, I have to fulfil my daily quota of three hours' housework.
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She said that her mother was a domestic goddess who always said it was easier to do housework herself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many people find rotas a useful way of avoiding housework battles.
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They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning.
Bad Food Britain
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When it came to housework, Mother possessed the quality called inevitableness to an extraordinary degree.
My Boyhood
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I'll let her off the housework this weekend.
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The inherent frustrations of assembly line work are also to be found in housework.
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She emphasised the status of housework as a moral code rather than a logical practice.
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I do every single bit of housework while he just does the dishes now and again.
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Various authors have suggested or claimed that working-class women are satisfied with housework while middle-class women are not.
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She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
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So I pottered instead and did a bit more housework and started easing by brain towards The Reluctant Mage and by golly, I got to bed at a reasonable hour.
A new week ...
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Housework has been relegated to an occasional frenzied panic in between working on my projects and my beloved blog gets written mostly in my head.
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When the question is broadened to satisfaction with job or housework, a similar pattern obtains.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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He has been getting a lot more aggressive recently over such trivial things as the housework and his dinner.
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Housework has traditionally been regarded as women's work.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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We share parenting and housework but life is very hectic.
The Sun
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The housemaid helps the Helmers with the housework, mail, and callers.
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She found that the physical effort needed to get the shopping and housework done was just too much and she began having more angina attacks.
Coping with Angina
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They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning.
Bad Food Britain
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Even daily activities such as general housework or playing with your kids can be a good opportunity to boost your fitness levels.
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Housework in the 1950s was also a big deal, and I say that not with the slatternly view that not all dirt is a bad thing, but rather in admiration.
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And they do less housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was also an improvement in satisfaction in the share-out of housework and childcare.
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She shared her mother's dislike of housework.
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My hip hurts a lot from all the train sitting and housework today.
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I spent all morning doing housework.
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Moreover, a one income family used to have a sort of safety net in the form of Mom, who could drop housework to become a nursemaid, emergency aid worker, or temporary wage earner.
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Do a housework workout. Whenever you have to do those nagging chores, do them with some pizzazz.
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Do you use housework as a way to disengage emotionally?
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It's so true, that sewing is actually hard labour, and while one is sweating at the machine, the housework will not be done!
Sensibility Regency Pattern
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The effect of women contributing more money is that couples are beginning to share the burdens of housework and childcare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sit up, do light housework, or take a walk until your body has had a chance to digest.
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I work, then come home and do the housework and gardening.
The Sun
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For example, she may be the main breadwinner, he does the housework, or he handles the money and investments.
>An interview with Laura Carroll, conducted by Carol Dominy. First published in BellaOnline.com.
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How do those TV mothers always manage to look so immaculately coiffed as they do the housework?
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He went out a couple of times a week with his friend to play snooker and I had to get all the housework and ironing done while he was out.
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It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.
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We continue to do the majority of the housework and childcare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Le Corbusier's ideas about houses, the household, and housework are expounded in his classic work, Vers Une Architecture.
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They were offering free accommodation and food to some one who would do what they described as a little gentle housework.
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Joan did the laundry, washing up, and housework holding her with one arm.
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Other ideas include helping with housework and less TV.
The Sun
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He makes a martyr of himself whenever it's his turn to do the housework.
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An example of surplus labor is unsalaried housework.
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Staying fit through housework and gardening?
Times, Sunday Times
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We thought we should pull our fingers out and actually do some housework as it is looking a bit bogging around the place now.
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But because work is not a component of the feminine stereotype housework lacks any conceptualization in sociology as work.
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They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning.
Bad Food Britain
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And so tomorrow, with a clean conscience, I shall hie me to see the new Star Trek film, get some housework done, take care of a few urgent chores on Friday, then return with a vengeance Saturday to the Clone Wars #4 rewrite.
Yeeeeesssss!!!!!!!
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Feminists are wrong to claim that men should do a larger share of the housework and childcare because on average, men and women already do the same number of hours of productive work, " Hakim said.
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She reveals the oppressiveness of housework evident in the series, an unusual viewpoint at a time when heroines in other books were learning to sew and cook.
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Two images of women of color appeared much later in the booklet, shown only once, and linked to themes of housework and childcare.
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In response to Brunetti's observation that she was displaying a certain lack of multicultural sensitivity, she replied that half the trouble and most of the violence in the world would be eliminated if men were forced to do their own ironing, 'which word I use as a metonym for all housework, please understand', she had hastened to add.
Sunday Salon: building loyal readers
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MUM Emma Langley took a clean sweep of her health after regaining her figure doing housework.
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They share the housework equally.
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The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology.
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If I’m to do my fair share of the housework (and yes, household repairs, mowing the lawn, and keeping both our cars maintained and repaired is just as much housework as cleaning, but nevertheless I clean too), then the woman is to do her fair share of paying for things!
Responses to the commenters on the “Guilty Pleasures” post. « A Bird’s Nest
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Nowadays, women who are doing much work out in the big world -- the so-called "enfranchised" women -- are many of them proving that they find housework no detriment to their careers and some even admit that they enjoy it.
American Cookery November, 1921
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Alexis is doing an internship at our winery. le stage = internship le/la stagiaire = intern, trainee le ménage = housework le souci = worry la garçonnière = bachelor pad le fromage = cheese la demoiselle = the young lady la gastro (gastronomie) = gastronomy hélas = alas une mère = mother (note: this word is missing from the sound file)
Stagiaire - French Word-A-Day
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They share the housework equally between them.
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Share the housework and hours of free time suddenly appear.
Times, Sunday Times
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And crivvens, the sturdy garment that helped generations of women, like Maw Broon, protect their clothes from the dust, splatters and splashes of daily housework, is making a come back.
IcAyrshire
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Women are incredibly disadvantaged when they perform traditionally female work - childcare, housework, eldercare - unpaid within families.
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She says she goes back home with amusing anecdotes about the day - and housework doesn't take over her life.
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he gave me an assist with the housework
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Le Corbusier's ideas about houses, the household, and housework are expounded in his classic work, Vers Une Architecture.
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She also said that it was easier to clean the loo and pick up socks yourself than bore on about shared housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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In our so-called post-feminist world, housework is not simply without status, but fast becoming a guilty secret.
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Although modern conveniences have made managing a home easier, the time spent on housework has remained much the same.
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Au pairs (the term roughly translates as "" equal '' in French) are teenagers who receive small salaries and expect to be treated as quasi family members in exchange for some housework and child care.
'I Didn't Do Anything'
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Housework is low on her list of priorities.
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They spend 15 minutes longer on housework in general than men who do not own them, according to the research.
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None of us is much good at housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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Q. How many times a week do you do mildly energetic activity such as gardening, light housework or repairing things?
The Sun
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She spends her days drawing, leaving Stan to tend to the kids and housework.
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They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning.
Bad Food Britain
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The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology.
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I do all the housework; I practically serve you while you lie around and insult and abuse me.
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As the only boy, I definitely got away with doing very little housework.
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My Mum was a typical housewife, loved housework and didn't feel I should really do anything round the house.
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I promised Mom I'd help more with the housework.
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Unfortunately, both parents often work today, and after work they have housework, cleaning, laundry to do.
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She hasn't been feeling well lately and she let the housework slide.
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The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology.
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James lives in a bare cell of a bedroom - only allowed out to do the housework - until he's rescued from his miserable existence by a magical giant peach and ends up famous in New York.
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At least I was too ill to be nagged by the missus into doing housework.
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He also leaves all the housework and childcare to me.
The Sun
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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They argue on the subject of men doing their share of the housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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She longed to escape from the bonds of children and housework.
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The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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If a marriage is dissolved, the reduced investment in a career is potentially only costly to the spouse emphasizing housework.
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He hopes (as we all do) that inspiration will spring from a cup of coffee, a muffin, a phone call, housework…
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By recognizing both paid and unpaid work, she addresses housework, industrial labor, outwork, and white-collar careers.
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She is in charge of the housework.
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There's only so much newsworthiness you can get out of laundry, cleaning, cooking, housework.
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It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.
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But we were also expected to be adults: we had to do much of the housework and the gardening.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when Tonia is due to jet in he hits the panic button and blitzes the housework.
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One tip Paul was given was not to put off housework for too long, otherwise the tasks become almost insurmountable.
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Her school meant that "responsibilities around the house pile up; housework is so much work.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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Even daily activities such as general housework or playing with your kids can be a good opportunity to boost your fitness levels.
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She hasn't been feeling well lately and she let the housework slide.
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In my experience, it would seem that the biggest problem facing new mothers is not housework but a general sense of isolation.
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A working-class housewife married to a machine operator declares: Housework is boring.
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Get stuck into the housework before any allergy sufferers return from work or school.
The Sun
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But when Tonia is due to jet in he hits the panic button and blitzes the housework.
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But suggest a bit of light housework and he's all feral snarls and pulling rank.
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I have to drag myself out of bed each day, and I can't get up the energy to do any housework.
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The carpet was as crumbless and lintless as if meals were never taken there, nor work seen; and yet a little table ready set for dinner forbade the one conclusion, and a huge basket of naperies in one corner showed that Miss Janet's industry did not spend itself in housework alone.
The Wide, Wide World
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The general concept of housework is grasped in relation to the total structure of patriarchal relations in which it exists.
Critical Social Research
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Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work.
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He pays lip - service to feminism but his wife still does all the housework.
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After she married into a merchant family, she devoted herself to both the family business and housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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Individual entries are now barely worth documenting, and the phenomenon is best appreciated in bulk through websites such as the Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project and Kill Or Cure, with its alphabetised list: from almonds, apples and artificial light; through horseradish, hot drinks and housework; to wasabi, water, watercress and more.
The Daily Mail cancer story that torpedoes itself in paragraph 19
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How do those TV mothers always manage to look so immaculately coiffed as they do the housework?
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We're generally taught that housework is a menial, even demeaning task.
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I have done mucho housework - including attacking my shambled (previously spotless) kitchen back to a state of almost spotlessness.
July 15th, 2006
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Like housework, it's a thankless and unglamorous job.
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They recognize the essential fact of housework right from the very beginning.
Bad Food Britain
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The inherent frustrations of assembly line work are also to be found in housework.
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Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree.
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Ellen Malos, in her introduction to "The Politics of Housework", provides a summary of the debates.
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How much do men share housework and the care of the children?
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Two images of women of color appeared much later in the booklet, shown only once, and linked to themes of housework and childcare.
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In our so-called post-feminist world, housework is not simply without status, but fast becoming a guilty secret.
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A paper by Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri, and Mehmet Yorukoglu examines the role of modern appliances in liberating women from housework.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.
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In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.
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Also you should agree in advance how much housework he is prepared to do.
Times, Sunday Times
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After Mass they would begin their assigned housework duties, cooking, washing or administration.
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Women did more than twice as much childcare and housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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I spent all morning doing the housework.
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I bet she'd welcome the offer of help with the washing, housework and maybe a bit of babysitting.
The Sun
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In her memory, her grandma was always busy with housework from early morning.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day.
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Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play.
Rose in Bloom
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Onyx notably lacked inclination for housework, not to mention motherly instinct.
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The old couple have no one to do housework; they have to fend for themselves.
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Sure, you will get the housework done more quickly but there will be some issues with noise, vibration and harshness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work.
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The word "enjoy" is important because anyone can take on extra jobs and then rush through their housework and make it look like they are coping.
The Homemaker's Time
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Instead of letting us exorcise him, she makes him help out with the housework.
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One apparent contradiction was the general dislike of housework but not a denial of the housework role.
Critical Social Research
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Q. How many times a week do you do mildly energetic activity such as gardening, light housework or repairing things?
The Sun
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Of the six basic housework tasks cooking is, according to these women, potentially the most enjoyable activity.
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Moderate exercise includes general housework, mowing a lawn, carrying golf clubs, gardening, leisurely canoeing and dancing.
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After she married into a merchant family, she devoted herself to both the family business and housework.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.
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Inequalities still exist: in pay, career advancement and in ‘the double burden’ of paid work and housework.
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light housework
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Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
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Modern inventions facilitate housework.
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The 40 women in her study subscribed to the idea that housework was women's work.
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Apparently this symbolises jobs done by women, but with its leaden literalism it misses the point of memorials and just reminds you of housework and faceless drudgery.
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Moderate exercise includes general housework, mowing a lawn, carrying golf clubs, gardening, leisurely canoeing and dancing.
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When spills, tears and clothing changes are book-ended by meal preparation and clean up, sometimes getting out of your pajamas is truly not an option, let alone tending to housework or other obligations.
Abi Cotler O'Roarty: The Important Role of Stay-at-Home Moms
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She also did housework for various elderly people who had her services in their homes on a regular basis.
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She's 85 now, but she will insist on doing all her own housework.
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Housework is a never-ending task.
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The third floor sign reads: Floor 3: These men have highly paid jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, and help with the housework.
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This is one reason why standards and routines represent an important dimension of housework behaviour.
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Women generally not only do much more housework, we also seem to get lumbered with more of the family admin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ruling meant he could not receive the ￡20-￡30 pocket money allowed to au pairs, or officially help with the housework.
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Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
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Housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work.
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The carpet was as crumbless and lintless as if meals were never taken there nor work seen; and yet a little table ready set for dinner forbade the one conclusion, and a huge basket of naperies in one corner showed that Miss Janet's industry did not spend itself in housework alone.
The Wide, Wide World
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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You can really work up a sweat doing housework.
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However, a consequence of this autonomy is their responsibility for seeing that housework gets done.
