household drudgery

There was nothing like a few weeks of household drudgery to make the stellar reaches more exciting.

Her particular interest was electricity, and how this might benefit women by liberating them from household drudgery.

It will not be a case of "household drudgery" for the girls while the boys are studying civics.

They did the household drudgery, brought the food and planned the meals and washed the children's necks.

Mechanical sewing machines were introduced in 1851 with the promise that they would liberate women from household drudgery.

It's - it's obscene that she should be wasting her vitality on household drudgery, a woman like that.

Miriam waits for a prince to discover her true noble identity and rescue her from household drudgery.

She feels trapped, nearly buried alive in her bleak existence, filled with demanding children, household drudgery, and a drunken, irresponsible husband.

Ms. Lupton said the machines were marketed to women as perfect suitors promising to free women from household drudgery.

Homemakers should, therefore, be eager to buy and use all the household tools that will save their strength and time and liberate them from household drudgery.

Mary MacArthur, a leading woman trade unionist, believed that these figures could be attributed to the 'treble strain of child-bearing, wage-earning and household drudgery'.

Although improvements in domestic conveniences liberated middle-class women from household drudgery, allowing more time for a wider participation in society, the traditional prejudice against self-support remained strong.

LET history record that here, in a living room with soap and water-dispensing nozzles on the ceiling, a decisive battle in the war on household drudgery was fought.

At the Westinghouse Pavilion, the seven-foot-tall robot Elektro promised to end household drudgery, occasionally appearing with his Moto-Dog Sparko, a beast who presumably didn't require a lint brush or a pooper-scooper.

In the most famous scene in Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," five Irish sisters in County Donegal, 1936, suddenly break loose from their household drudgery to explode in dance to the music pouring out of their new Marconi radio.