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Women on Farms Average 63 Hours' Work Weekly in Survey of 700 Homes

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Creator

Kneeland, Hildegarde

Date

1928

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National Agricultural Library

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Yearbook of Agriculture, p. 620-622

Subject

time-use studies

Excerpt

There is much talk nowadays about the housewife with too much leisure. But as far as the farm woman is concerned, this is not yet a very troublesome problem. Of her the old saying still has significance: "Man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done."

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Women on Farms Average 63 Hours' Work Weekly in Survey of 700 Homes

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