uhhh i'm talking about a book that is about the *history* of housework and how we came to have increasingly higher standards--since we were talking 1900 standards and someone was alarmed at 12 hours spent washing. i was trying to show that it might have been considerably less time spent washing than you think. today, doing laundry, for me, takes 2 hours but i do it 3 times a week.
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dick around with them, i don't have time to dick around for someone who has "heard it before" doubted it and will continue to doubt it because he wants to.
At 12:45 PM 6/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>why survey data reveal that women are
> > spending more time doing
> > housework than ever before (that was as of the mid
> > 80s).
>
>I've heard this before, but I'm not sure that I buy
>it. What are her sources? Are they counting 2 hours
>waiting for a washing machine to finish a load as 2
>hours "working"?
>
>part of it is
> > because modern household appliance actually make
> > more work because along
> > with technological developments come different
> > standards. e.g., in the
> > olden daze, bread was of the quick bread kind or
> > sour dought starter
> > bread. (corn bread, batter breads which don't
> > require kneading and
> > elaborate steps).
>
>Not a good example. I personally don't know anyone
>who actually makes their own bread unless they're some
>sort of fresh bread fetishist - and even then they
>probably use one of those nifty bread machines that do
>all the work for you.
>
> > as well as cakes that required considerably more
>effort
> > to make.
> >
>
>Again, I would classify baking cakes and the like in a
>modern household to be more of a leisure activity than
>necessary "housework". Of course, I'm a bachelor with
>a very messy house, so I probably don't know what I'm
>talking about (as usual)...
>
>Jim Baird
>
>
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