More work for mother
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Read on Hacker News…he can go out to dinner at a nice restaurant and get laid with any of her clients and if he didn't have more to offer her, why should she see him? According to the book "More work for mother", homemakers today work about 60 hours a week -- the same as homemakers did 300 years ago. The book is the history of technology in the home -- ie of "labor saving devices" like vacuum cleaners. Such inventions apparently saved male labor, not female labor. Vacuum cleaners meant men stopped having to beat the rugs and women took over the task of cleaning rugs. Women who work full time jobs still do 40 hours of housework a week. Men have endeavored to pick up some of the slack. It amounts to them doing, on average, about 10 minutes more a day or an hour and ten minutes a week -- which doesn't begin to make up for the 20 hours of labor she is no longer …
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