(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.
Workhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
(n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
(n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(2) Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' Read more I find the fact that the majority of workers at Shirebrook are agency staff troubling.
(3) Known in the small Welsh town of Llanfyllin as "Lonely Tree", because it stood in splendid isolation, bending to the prevailing west wind on a bare skyline high above the town, the huge, 200-year-old pine could be seen from the school, the church, the police station, the Victorian workhouse and many of the town's pubs.
(4) The absence of workhouses and the small number of street children would please you, and the lack of blatant prostitution in the Haymarket.
(5) "I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse.
(6) Then came The Workhouse Donkey , about municipal corruption, at the Chichester festival in 1963.
(7) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(8) Christ in a dole queue, Kris: no job in this rotten workhouse of a fiscal climate?
(9) Clegg's obsession with internship recalls Victorian philanthropy funding apprenticeships for the "deserving" workhouse poor.
(10) Almshouses not only included workhouses but provided comprehensive medical services.
(11) Shareholders are seeking to unseat Hellawell for presiding over a deteriorating financial performance and conditions at Sports Direct’s warehouse at Shirebrook that MPs have likened to a Victorian workhouse .
(12) The buildings are a mixture of old workhouse-type wards and modern purpose-built facilities.
(13) Wright said the incident had undermined the committee’s faith in Ashley’s promises to improve conditions at Sports Direct after the MPs accused him of running the company like a Victorian workhouse .
(14) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(15) Subjecting staff to workhouse conditions is not the way to build a successful business.
(16) Recently semi-pedestrianised Walthamstow Village has a 15th-century church and old timbered houses, almshouses nearly as old, and an engaging free museum in the former workhouse.
(17) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(18) Some plays: 1955 All Fall Down; '57 The Waters of Babylon; '58 Live Like Pigs; '59 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; '63 The Workhouse Donkey; '64 Armstrong's Last Goodnight; '65 Left-Handed Liberty.
(19) What I got was a workhouse | Daniel Lavelle Read more The tours come at a time when some cities are attempting to effectively outlaw homelessness.
(20) April A groundbreaking documentary series, States of Fear, by the Irish broadcaster RTE, exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.