household duties

collocation in English

meaningsofhouseholdandduty

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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us
/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Men worked longer hours while women were responsible for household duties.
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Thus, while the older dieters avoided the relational conflicts experienced by younger respondents, they did so at the cost of extra household duties.
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However, it seems that these three named activities composed the bulk of the time categorized as 'other' household duties.
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Consequently, daughters were expected to undertake household duties.
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The housewife would fill corresponding positions when it came to household duties and the maids' work.
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Sometimes they hired young girls to help them with household duties.
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The medieval ie of each social class had a division of labour which assigned official duties to the husband and household duties to the wife.
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This put an increasing strain on women, called the 'double burden' (household duties and paid work).
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Housewives obviously spent most of their time on household duties, but were also involved in subsidiary agriculture and home-production of artefacts for consumption purposes.
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I want to draw attention, rather, to women's articulation of practices in terms of the necessary negotiation of household duties.
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Within the household, the increase in female labour participation rates put a heavy strain on women, who came to face a double burden of employment and household duties, including child-care.
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Time spent on household duties and childcare by women more than doubled after the birth of the first child.
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It seems that the total time spent on these activities remained more or less stable, but a redistribution of time occurred between different types of household duties.
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Notwithstanding the fact that they worked almost equal hours, employed women spent almost four times as much time on household duties as men (30.5 and 7.9 hours respectively).
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Employed spouses from extended households, especially women, spent a much larger amount of time on 'other ' household duties in comparison to employees from non-extended family households and employed solitaries.
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For example, whereas the ability to carry out household duties and to baby-sit might be limited by deteriorating health, sharing one's life history and moral principles is surely less affected.
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The vast majority of the husbands and two-thirds of the wives report that their spouse does some of the shopping, reflecting some sharing of household duties.
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However, since women start with less capital, have heavier dependency burdens and experience more time constraints due to household duties than men, their incomes tend to be smaller.
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Women's household duties and child-care responsibilities also kept them away from the factory at certain periods of their lives.
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Women's reproductive role and the household duties they had to perform would have limited women in their economic activities and their ability to earn.
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