Blogger's view on dominated, happier women: cooking, cleaning ...

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Discussion invitation: "They clean, cook, do massive amounts of laundry, work the plows, till the soil, water the crops, often by hand, with buckets of water from wells." "Marilyn Lehman, who grew up Amish in La Grange County, Indiana, argues that when women prepare the home and food for the fellowship meal after church, they transform the space “from ordinary to ceremonial.”" "The American women I know are not, as a rule, generally happier than the Amish women I know. Few of them seem as fulfilled. They struggle to find good jobs and get paid fairly for them." -Jon Katz blog, Bedlam Farms, July 1, 2021