housework

Example Sentences

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With “Beef,” Lee links the potential liabilities women face by locking into long-term relationships to the realities of the capitalist trap, which draws women into not only unpaid housework but uncompensated emotional labor, too.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Though the ring knows when I’ve been walking, it confuses my harried morning routine for housework.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

About half of caregivers regularly assisted a parent with errands, housework and home repairs.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

Even when Mami went back to school, first to get her GED and then to learn how to be an operating room technician, she and the girls did all the housework.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer