What is Your definition of the term: "Woman's Work"? What does it bring to mind when You hear it said?

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Answer 1

doing dishes, laundry, vaccumming and dusting comes to mind.

Answer 2

Diapering. That's the word that comes to mind when I hear that cultural phrase, "Women's Work". I babysitted most of my childhood for income and diapered about a billion babies before graduating from high school. Then, I had children and ran a nursery school and must have changed like a billion diapers over ten years. Then, I began nursing and changed about a billion more children's and adult's diapers over the next ten years. I am presently, in my old age, diaper liberated. I am woman. Here me roar. : )

Answer 3

Well, it COULD mean anything. But that particular idiom tends to come out of the sexist mouths of men and women who think that vagina-carriers are supposed to be automatically good at baby makin', laundry scrubbin', and feather dustin'.

You don't hear the phrase "women's work" coming from more enlightened souls who intrinsically understand that all work simply needs to get done, whether the worker be male or female. Got a rip in your pants? Sew it up, stupid. Sink full of dirty dishes? Get a sponge and have at it. What needs to be done needs to be done; you don't have to designate chores based upon what genitalia you were born with. That is one of THE most insane social codes we have. I don't care how you feel about gender roles, really think about it for a second -- you can only cook if you have a vagina and you can only chop wood if you were born with a penis -- and tell me that it's not mind-numbingly stupid and crazy.

Answer 4

I have only heard that term used once (aside from ficticiuos television programmes).
A guy who spent a considerable amount of time sniffing around my wife used it. He'd accused me of 'nit picking' (I'd asked why she kept having secret phone calls & text messages, hiding her laptop, deleting history etc. etc. - to him, that was nitpicking) - so i pointed out that she I figured it was more like asking 'where is my marriage going?' I also pointed out that she had nitpicked my laundry folding, claiming it was annoying because I would do up a couple of buttons (to help keep the shape)... he responded in her defense saying "oh, no, that's not nit picking - that's woman's work... of course she knows better"

What a retard.

Answer 5

We have to see the term in a new perspective. Women's work is now a days HOME MAKER ie they make home successful, ie hubs & kids. They are the most intricate MANAGERS of the time. They manage all household jobs, baby sitting, manage kitchen, manage timings of all those living in house,prepare food and teach children and husbands. This all apart BEAR CHILDREN and manage finances. MIND YOU, THEY ARE BETTER MANAGERS.

Answer 6

That's the work I get to do while he's on his bottom in front of the tele. So, pretty much everything from mowing the lawn, to weeding the gardens, to doing the dishes, to cleaning the house, laundry, blah...

Answer 7

Woman's work, noun: A term designed to keep women and men segregated in the workplace.

A woman's work is whatever she says it is. Mine is advertising. My mother's is teaching. My grandmother's was working in a library, and my other grandmother's was broadcasting.

Answer 8

For me, it brings to mind Rosie the Riveter. But I may be odd.

Answer 9

Just your every day run of the mill chores that a man would call demeaning.

Answer 10

"Woman's Work is never done"
means that housework is an endless process - there is always that can be cleaned, dusted, aired, mended, etc.