Definition of "housework" []

• The tasks, such as cleaning and cooking, that are performed in housekeeping. (noun)

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• ""We don't really know which way the current recession is going to affect relationships between men and women — whether men are going to step up to the plate and become much more involved in housework and parenting or whether they're going to do what other studies have shown them to do — which is try to express their masculinity by doing even less," says California psychologist and therapist Joshua Coleman, conference co-chairman."
• "As others have said, this assumes that housework is an undefined lump of a good."
• "I finished the galleys for Siege on Friday, spent the weekend up to my eyeballs in housework and SW interviews and stuff, and shortly I run round to the post office to pick up the galleys for Reluctant Mage."