
London: A mother is worth a salary of 37,000 pounds a year for her 71-hour week, a media report said Thursday quoting a study. The typical mum spends more than 10 hours a day on activities such as cleaning up after the children, putting them to bed and helping with homework. This makes her working week even longer than that of a junior doctor, often regarded as the profession with...

12:35 PM, Jul 24, 2011

London: Housewives have long been complaining about it, now a new study has confirmed that running the home is more stressful for your heart than being at work. The study by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US showed that household chores such as cooking, cleaning, mopping floors and shopping may be even worse for your heart. The scientists who tested over 100 working men...

02:06 PM, Jan 14, 2011

It takes 130 minutes to do the laundry and 104 minutes to iron. ...

01:57 AM, Aug 11, 2008

Women doing household chores like dusting, mopping and vacuuming may reduce their risk of breast cancer, says study. ...

12:06 PM, Dec 29, 2006

You don’t need to get an expensive exercising machine or join the gym to lose weight, simply do some household chores. ...

06:40 PM, Aug 22, 2006