Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for WomenHusbands and wives may say they are committed to equality. Yet, whether employed or not, wives still perform an astonishing share of the physical, emotional, and organisational labour in marriageeverything from housework to 'sex work'. Wifework is a shorthand for this relentless routine of husband maintenance. Women today initiate three quarters of all divorces. Wifework, Maushart argues, lies at the core of their disillusionment. If family life is