House work

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Housework is work done by the act of housekeeping. Some housekeeping is housecleaning and some housekeeping is home chores. Home chores are housework that needs to be done at regular intervals,^[1] Housekeeping includes the budget and control of expenditures, preparing meals and buying food, paying the heat bill, and cleaning the house.^[2] Outdoor housecleaning chores include removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows, sweeping doormats, cleaning the pool, putting away lawn furniture, and taking out the trash.^[3]

Housework accomplished by housecleaning is part of the work done in a nation. Some of it is done by employees, and that housework is able to be measured by the nation‘s government. The other spending of the household is measured also, as it is reported by the business sector. Gross National Product is a measure of the financial cost of the nation‘s work during the year and can by compared to what its price was the year before.^[4]

Many feminists have pointed to housework as a site of economic and social devaluation of women's work and worth.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ Gove, Philip et al. 1961. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. Springfield, Massachusetts: G & C Merriam Company
2. ^ Ansley, Clark et al. 1935. The Columbia Encyclopedia in One Volume. Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press.
3. ^ Smallin, Donna. 2006. Cleaning Plain & Simple. Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA.
4. ^ McConnell, Campbell. 1978. Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies. Seventh Edition. USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company
5. ^ Angela Davis, On the Obsolescence of Housework. Women, Race and Class The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective