<p>Women in earlier generations worked from sun up to sun down.</p>
<p>Women still do, although sometimes they don’t do that work in their own homes.</p>
<p>There have been several “who works hardest/most hours” sorts of threads. A lot of you are working really hard, even when it’s not physical labor.</p>
<p>ETA: kindle and vacuuming books. After a huge purge when the kids left for college and another when we moved, we have a very small permanent library. The new books we buy and read usually get donated to the library or friends. The goal for the permanent book collection is to get everything in book cases with glass doors to avoid the dust issue as much as possible. We are almost there. Yep - a very niche hobby.</p>