Editing Homemaking (section)

==Effects of technology and advertising==
[[List of home appliances|Many home appliances]] have been invented that make housework faster or more effective compared to before the industrial revolution.  These include:
*[[Washing machine]]
*[[Clothes dryer]]
*[[Dishwasher]]
*[[Sewing machine]]
*[[Vacuum cleaner]]
*[[Small electrics]] like the [[electric mixer]], [[blender]], [[toaster]], and [[coffee maker]]
*[[Microwave oven]]
*[[Refrigerator]], reducing the number of grocery trips or the amount of food preservation work to do

[[Utilities]] can potentially eliminate work like gathering and chopping firewood, shovelling coal, fetching water from outdoors, and heating cold tap water.

Historian [[Ruth Schwartz Cowan]] estimated that homemakers in the 1800s performed about 50–60 hours of work per week, and that this is the same as the 1990s.  She says that, rather than reducing the amount of time devoted to housework, labor-saving devices have been used to make the same amount of time do more work, such as by vacuuming a rug instead of sweeping it, or washing fabrics more frequently.  Modern parents also more frequently transport their children to after-school activities, and doctors no longer make house calls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/engines//epi1088.htm |title=No. 1088: Housework |website=Uh.edu |date=2004-08-01 |access-date=2016-07-07}}</ref>