housework

“I help my parents, siblings and friends with odd jobs — running social media accounts, housework, pet-sitting,” he said.

In the kitchen: a sink filled with dishes, because Mr. Gibson insisted that Gibby should do all the housework and she resisted until she could no longer tolerate the mess.

"We set out to build the robot that helps you, that makes your life better, your general-purpose servant that can do anything around the home, do all the housework..."

Amy, 36, from Norwich, bought the brush online for £4 to "make life easier" with housework, but it caught in her daughter's hair when the child took it out of the box.

One possible source of domestic tension: Women often still handle more of the housework and child care, even when they are breadwinners.