My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.