housework
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“Beef” 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
Though the ring knows when I’ve been walking, it confuses my harried morning routine for housework.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
In recent years, North Korean TV shows have featured men wearing aprons and doing housework - a sign of how much has changed there.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
About half of caregivers regularly assisted a parent with errands, housework and home repairs.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
Partly it’s because my own normal work is sedentary, so that the housework I do—in dabs of fifteen minutes here and thirty minutes there—functions as a break.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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