Jack Canfield

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

American Author

Van Heflin

Housework has been reduced to a minimum. Even without servants, there is scarcely enough to do to keep women occupied eight hours a day. Moreover, girls are now trained to handle jobs in high school. They graduate from school and college prepared to take over places in the business world.

Sheryl Sandberg

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

American Businesswoman

Alice Munro

Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.

Canadian Writer

Shehnaaz Gill

I watch good content, and films that are educating about life, or other things. I also do all my housework myself and that's where my day goes.

Siobhan Fahey

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

British Musician

Kate Millett

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

American Activist

Joe Wicks

My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

British Author

Erma Bombeck

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

American Journalist

Sable

Historically associated with women, but use it equally for all genders to avoid reinforcing stereotypes.

Gender Stereotypes

Includes a range of tasks like cooking and gardening, not only tidying and scrubbing.

Not Just Cleaning

It's a regular, often daily activity, suggesting routine and responsibility.

Routine Activity

 so here are some of the things they've said cause cancer recently divorced Wi-Fi toiletries and coffee here are some of the things they say prevent cancer crushed red-pepper licorice and coffee so already you can see there are contradictions here coffee both causes and prevents cancer and as you start to read on you can see that maybe there's some kind of political valence behind some of this so for women housework

Battling bad science -...

 and she didn't really have the money to become a doctor school was no longer an option for amelia so she had to go to work once in boston she dedicated herself to life as a settlement house worker what today we'd call a social worker where she worked to help new immigrants adjust to life in the u.s settlement housework was

Amelia Earhart Part II:...

 breakfast yeah I mean there that is I think one of life's little luxuries you can pay for breakfast you know you don't have to worry about housework cooking washing up that was brilliant original house laying by the pool getting drunk in the middle of the day let's have another beer let's get drunk

Locked Up in Sydney PIPE...

 Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week

Is the world getting...

 say it improved their relationship, too. This happens along a few different First, because you gain a whole new respect for what's involved in childcare and housework, and it makes you step up and take on more. And by being home, you're providing emotional support. Statistics show

Why paternity leave...

 cleaning and maintaining this unimaginably complex machine. Like our housework, it's a dirty and a thankless job, but it's also important. In your house, if you stop cleaning your kitchen for a month, your home will become completely unlivable

One more reason to get a...

 extraordinary move for my mother's generation working was normal a lot of women worked hundred percent of the time they raise children and they have also did one hundred percent of the housework blows my mind but that's how it was thirty

Defying stereotypes: the...

 we often have two phrases that we use to describe what we do. We pitch in and we help out. And I'm going to propose something a little bit more radical, one "share." Because here's what the data when men share housework and childcare,

Why Gender Equality Is...

 When they get back from work, she does most of the housework, which I think is true for many marriages. But what struck me about them was that whenever her husband changed the baby's diaper, she said "thank you" to him.

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 empty after calling cobble her home for six years she doesn't know if she can ever return you know today my uh we have a we have somebody who's very clear to us who helps out with the housework