Efficient work habits give men leisure that women’s routines deny them

Evidence

Miller had all his things “washed up” and his “pots and pans” cleaned in ten minutes after supper, and then had the whole evening in which to smoke and enjoy himselfa poor woman would probably have been “fussing round” till 10 o’clock about the same work. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 264

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: housework time-use as a persistent gendered asymmetry the traveler noticed in 1873 and that still structures domestic labor debates.