Sentence examples for housework from inspiring English sources

Friends would sneer at his name on the housework rota; frown at the missing bannisters and lentil stews.

"Those individuals who are largely responsible for domestic labour – taking care of kids, doing the housework – don't always have time to sit down and watch a game uninterrupted," says Whitehead, the co-author of Women (Not) Watching Women: Leisure Time, Television, and Implications for Televised Coverage of Women's Sports.

Men were permitted, but only on condition that they assuage their male guilt through housework.

Her subject is many-branched and full of pressing issues, not least, the status of housework itself.

Part of the problem may be what Italians call the "partial emancipation" of women, who are free to go out to work but are then still expected to bring up children, look after the grandparents and do the housework.

Washing machines, ready meals and vacuum cleaners meant that mothers were spending half as much time on core housework, and fathers were chipping in, raising their share of these tasks from 14 minutes a day in 1965 to 41 in 2012.

A different Pew survey finds that 62% of parents find child care "very meaningful", a figure that falls to 43% for housework and only 36% for paid work.However, there are two worries about modern parenting.

They behave worst in Japan, where a government survey found that husbands in dual-income families on average devote eight minutes a day to housework.

But 44% of young men aged 15-29 said they never did any housework, and 18% did not even make their own bed.

Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30 hours a week doing the housework.

Each sprog under five added 20 minutes to her weekday housework time, but just a couple of minutes to his.