The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.
Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.
Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.
Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day. . . . Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.
The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.
I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.