Women spend far less time than they used to on household chores, new research by npower shows. We speak to three women from different generations about their role in the home – have gender stereotypes been removed in modern times? Dishwashers transformed many women's lives because they could spend less time washing up. Photo: Daily Herald Archive / NMeM / Science & Society Picture Libr By Louisa Peacock 7:00AM GMT 05 Dec 2012 Comments ELLA THURMAN, 85 ‘I used to wash the family’s clothes by hand in the gas boiler’ Ella Thurman, 85, from Stratford-upon-Avon, got married while there was still post-war rationing in the UK and set up home without a washing machine or...
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