Housework Is Obsolescent

It's been such a quiet revolution that you could hear a sock drop on a carpeted floor. Only you probably wouldn't pay any attention if you did.

Because what's one more sock down there among the broken action figures, lost homework papers and fresh kills brought in by the cat? After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don't do housework anymore -- that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the morning.

There should have been a lot more...

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