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The Home Stretch by Sally Howard
Acute analysis of why domestic labour still falls disproportionately to women
CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
HOUSEWORK, and who does it, was a key concern of the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, the time of the international Wages For Housework movement and Ann Oakley’s influential study Housewife.
Since then, as journalist Sally Howard argues in her brilliant new book, the issue has dropped off the agenda of mainstream feminism.
Certainly, men do more domestic labour than they used to — an average of just one hour 20 minutes in 1971, compared with 17 hours a week in 2016, according to the UK Office for National Statistics.
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