housework
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With “Beef,” Lee links the potential liabilities women face by locking into long-term relationships to the realities of the capitalist trap, which draws women into not only unpaid housework but uncompensated emotional labor, too.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
About half of caregivers regularly assisted a parent with errands, housework and home repairs.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
"I find my own mental state is at its calmest outside whereas at home I can be overloaded with the chaos of housework," she says.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026
Frequently they were orphaned, brought up by nuns or stepmothers who made them do all the housework.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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