House work

House work

House work is a specific work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee, related to or used in the running of a household. Nowadays, men do not do much of the house work, leading to a point of dispute between partners today.

Depending on the nature of the house, chores can be divided into two categories, indoor and outdoor. Indoor chores in Western culture might include cooking, setting the table and washing dishes; cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, dusting and mopping; laundry and ironing; lifting and things, putting things away; child and elder ; paying bills. Outdoor work can include decorative and vegetable garden care, lawn and grounds maintenance, animal care, snow removal, driveway maintenance, outbuilding maintenance. In Japan, care of futons is often a regular task.

In traditional economic analysis, such house work performed by "members of the household" are not included in economic output. However, housework is a vital part of the economy and society. An early text discussing housework is Proverbs 31, describing an ideal wife who "looks after her family's needs." (verse 27 GNB).


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