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Christine Frederick

Christine Frederick: How a same-sex couple make a division of labour work, according to Globe and Mail. How a single mothers son does more than his share of housework Multimedia One evening in her New York home, Christine Frederick sat dutifully mending one of the few chores that, its safe to say, will not come up again in this story. But in 1912, the modern practice of fixing socks by buying a new batch at Costco was not yet in fashion.Mrs. Frederick was eavesdropping on her husband and a business associate discussing the improvements efficiency experts were making to assembly lines. She paused to interrupt: Why, I suppose you smart men will soon try to tell me and all the other women that washing dishes can be standardized ? More Related to this Story How one couple resorted to outsourcing housework (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.