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Women and Housework3 April 2007
According to a recent Royal Economic Society study, as soon as women and men either marry or live together, the working woman spends 15 hours a week on housework or other domestic chores, while the working man spends only five.

Women have got the vote, made strides on achieving equal pay and yet we're still fighting over who does the dishes and the school run!

So should men be doing more in the domestic sphere or, as Kelvin Mackenzie suggests, should women reclaim their domestic skills? Amanda Platell joins Kelvin to discuss this contentious issue with Jenni.
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