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Do you have ‘pink’ and ‘blue’ jobs in your home?


by Amy Lynch
12th Jun 2022

Housework and who does what is a common flash point in relationships. Amy Lynch wonders how, in her heterosexual relationship, cooking become a pink job and DIY a blue job, despite the fact that she’s poisoned her husband and he’s not great with a drill…

Division of labour: it was our first real fight.  We had just moved in together and it was important to start as you meant to go on. I mused: Just because I’d made the dinner and unloaded the dishwasher, he’d better not expect that every day. What chores was he going to do? And even though our first butting of heads was almost 20 years ago, it took a while  for us both to figure...

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