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The (lost) joy of housekeeping: Marta Hummel comes clean on the subject of maids. (One Last Observation).

Publication: Women's Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The (lost) joy of housekeeping: Marta Hummel comes clean on the subject of maids. (One Last Observation).(Column)(Brief Article)

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WHEN I WAS YOUNG, and my mom was angry with me for making a mess, she would always say, "Who do you think I am, your maid?"

Well, now I am grown up, and so are my mess-making friends, and many of us still want someone else to clean up after us. Except now we pay people to do what our mothers did out of love and a sense of duty. In fact, housekeepers are a weekly or bi-weekly necessity for many women, like manicures.

My age group, Gen X, feels no moral obligation to clean. I haven't heard...

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