These women say that the girls' counterpart to scouting, the Young Women's program, sometimes receives less money and support than the Boy Scouts and that "the girls tend to do more homemaker things, as opposed to rafting and survival skills," said Mary Ellen Robertson, interim executive director of Sunstone, an independent magazine on Mormon issues in Salt Lake City.
But the 37-year-old homemaker says that things have gotten worse in the last few years.
But, if she needs health care services, there are "home health aides" that may do all the things a homemaker does, plus they also have training in administering medications, changing wound dressings and other medically-related duties.
Across the state in Pittsfield, Marie Coe, a homemaker, says the same thing happened to her.
I was reading about it again (it had been in these pages a few weeks ago) in the Huffington Post, whose founder, Arianna herself, is no spring chicken – though what she prints doesn't always reflect her own preferences (she made her name writing about women being happiest as traditional homemakers – not a thing she'd fancy herself).
That is because among the first things a Hasidic homemaker does before preparing holiday dishes is clean the oven two or three times to make sure not even a speck of chametz from the past year contaminates those dishes.
When things go wrong, homemakers, unlike working men and women, do not have an alternative to the family unit to provide satisfaction, and they cited loneliness and frustration because of excessive homemaking demands as factors in their depression.
Deanne Brock, a homemaker in Dallas, said she looks for things that her 6-year-old son, Tyler, can eat quickly, because lunchtime at his crowded public school is less than 30 minutes.
Without the help of the homemaker program, said Ms. Arzu, the "mommy thing" would have been out of reach.
"Before, there was not much pressure on those who sell drugs, but with the army, things are changing," Janeth Ponce, 21, a homemaker, said as she sat in the sun last Saturday in the central square.
"I would like to see Al Gore concede so we can end this whole thing," said Pam Nervo, 36, a homemaker in Stow, Ohio, who backed Mr. Bush.
