a woman’s work is never done
- a woman’s work is never done
1570 T. TUSSER Husbandry (rev. ed.) 26 Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but huswiues affaires haue never none ende.
1629 in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III. 302 (title) A woman’s work is never done.
1722 B. FRANKLIN Papers (1960) 1.19 If you go among the Women, you will learn..that a Woman’s work is never done.
1920 Times Weekly 12 Mar. 209 ‘Women’s work is never done.’.. We shall never hear the whole of woman’s work during the war.
1981 ‘G. GAUNT’ Incomer xiv. My grannie used to say, A woman’s work is never done when it never gets started!
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