chore

Ms. Low laments that “while gender roles converged in the workplace, they did not converge at home” because men don’t do enough chores.

I have been working hard too, shoveling coal, swabbing the deck, & doing other chores.

"Instead of coming downstairs in the morning and getting on with millions of chores, see what state your partner is in."

That’s the last part of editing the book before it comes out, you’re not supposed to think of it as the worst chore ever.

There were my babysitting fees and an allowance for doing household chores—what I don’t know about toilet-cleaning is not worth knowing—which included the wringer-washer laundry that was to feature in Cat’s Eye.