No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Housework can kill you if done right.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Housework can't kill you but why take a chance?

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing because you have that space.