A recent effort at that accounting comes from Salary.com, which surveyed mothers and asked them how many hours they spent at the 10 different jobs that they do most: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, laundry machine operator, computer operator, psychologist, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive officer and janitor.
Cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.
Hundreds of years ago, it was a crucial chore to find clean water so you could hydrate, cook, wash, do laundry and not die.
So even though my father teased me when I was a boy that I would "make someone a good wife some day" -- because I knew how to cook, wash my own laundry, grow plants and flowers and do many of the things that many competent, independent people of both sexes are able to do for themselves -- I can't imagine calling myself anyone's wife.
She can cook, do laundry, keep a budget, choose friends and classes wisely, advocate for herself, read a map.
We were to share the apartment with a cook, a laundry maid and a sort of junior maid-in-training.
Erdos, in Heiligman's telling, never learned how to cook, do laundry or pay his bills — anything that might distract him from his math.
Basically, I am an unpaid maid, cook and laundry room lady.
A lot. Vacuum, dust, pick up, cook, do laundry, etc.
He shops, cooks, does laundry, sees to birthday parties, dental appointments, new shoes.
Like thousands of other black men, Mr. Miller was probably lured into the service by a recruiter who promised him a part in the fight while knowing that the Navy confined black sailors to jobs as mess attendants, who cooked, did laundry and shined shoes.
