"Break rooms across America hold signs that read: “Your mother doesn’t work here.” The new display at the Smithsonian “All Work, No Pay” examines just that: the implied expectation that women will take care of the housework. The display shows that despite making steps forward in the paid labor force, women continue to be held responsible for the almost-timeless and undeniably endless unpaid work at home. Pockets, aprons, housedresses and a variety of other costumes meant for domestic work from colonial America to the 1990s will be on display. Objects from various ethnic communities and classes will highlight how women shared similar tasks across race and class despite the complicated dynamics and inequalities between them. Through this display, visitors can see how women have always worked and examine the value and implications of unwaged labor in the home." - This is an exhibit I visited and encourage other women too. Women's work has been taken advantage of for centuries, and it's stopping here. You should be dating a grown man, not a child that can't help himself. "Wifey privileges" should not include you being the sole cleaner of the house. If he has hands, he can pick up a dish and wash his clothes. It's not sweet to infantilize men's abilities; it's pathetic. By setting the bar this low, women play a small part in allowing this behavior to continue (important here - I'm not blaming women who have been forced into domestic servitude by circumstances, region, culture,etc.) If you live together, clean together. (And don't date men who don't live clean, before they meet you, either. His behavior ain't gonna change, sis).

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