(n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Example Sentences:
(1) The days of the 9-5 were decades away; instead many worked on average 12-15 hours a day, every day, and not just in what we might consider "normal" women's jobs such as domestic service, charwoman, laundress or shirt-maker.
(2) Fiercely loyal to his mother until her death in 1994, he enjoyed the paradox of her being his mayoress while she was still the town hall charwoman.
(3) And on the school run everyone says it is coming to a choice between lose the family skiing holiday or try sex trafficking, though God knows where you start in Notting Hill, I know someone saw a year-five mother auctioning an au pair outside Lidgate, apparently there is this amazing asylum-seeker who will do a month's maths coaching for a 12-portion beef bourguignon pie, serious bargain, but what happens to the homework of children of mothers who may only have an old charwoman to sell, I mean no offence but how is that even fair?
Housework
Definition:
(n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(2) Is it true that some went mad but at least some housework got done?
(3) In Disney's hands, it became a story about a nice girl who likes singing and housework.
(4) Mothers' postpartum mental health is related to both the emotional support and practical help (eg, housework and child care activities) provided by the husband and others.
(5) The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a housework-based method of selecting, from among adults with acquired brain damage, those who would benefit from housework-based training; and of assessing the effects of such training.
(6) The patients had a more positive view of their abilities to cope with housework, self-care, and managing money than their relatives.
(7) Patients received more help with activities like shopping, laundry and housework than personal activities such as bathing, using the toilet and dressing.
(8) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(9) Results show that traditional definitions of physical activity and work based on participation in the formal labour force ignore a sizeable amount of home economic production, as well as the physical demands of housework.
(10) Daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than women whose mothers stayed home full-time, but maternal employment has no effect on adult daughters’ involvement in caring for family members.” Belinda Phipps, chair of the Fawcett Society for women’s equality, said: “Although we have known for a long time that there are lots of benefits to children to have working mothers, it is great to see more research confirming this.” But Phipps said it was disappointing to see that progress on sharing domestic housework other than childcare was proving slow to change.
(11) He helped with housework and even occasionally said he enjoyed it.
(12) On the husband's end, he doesn't understand why he's working 50-plus hours a week to financially support a grown woman as well as their children only to come home to the expectation that he do 50% of the housework and support his wife's unpaid volunteer efforts.
(13) Sheryl Sandberg has encouraged men to get involved in advocating for women’s equality at work and at home, academics have pointed out that men’s participation is necessary for real change and earlier this year in his State of the Union address , President Obama said: “It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.” It’s true; child care, housework, balancing work and home life - these are issues that men absolutely need to care about and take action on.
(14) The frequency of health-related problems associated with paid employment, housework, social life, home life and sex life decreased, indicating enhanced ability to take part in daily activities.
(15) TV bosses have already axed the hugely popular Super Girl singing contest, promising to replace it with programmes focused on housework and public safety.
(16) The chemical analysis of numerous housework cleansing agents exhibited the constant presence of nickel in these housework cleansings.
(17) Certainly, the lack of real mentorship, ingrained cultural patterns whereby women still bear the brunt of housework and childcare, and inadequate policies around parental leave and child support are all important factors.
(18) When women in an Anatolian town approached the visiting forestry minister in 2009, asking for work, he replied: "Isn't your housework enough?"
(19) Kimmel points to research that shows when men share housework and childcare, their children do better at school, they have higher rates of achievement, lower rates of absenteeism, are less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and childhood depression, less likely to see therapists and to be put on medication.
(20) They did more than 50% of the housework and in-home child care, with the remainder split between spouse and hired help, even though nearly two thirds were working full-time.