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Skiving from the family 17 Apr 2006
Research shows that even women who go out to work end up also carrying the bulk of the domestic burden.

A new study fom Magdeburg University in Germany has found that marriage boosts a man's life expectancy but it reduces the average woman's. It's put down to the fact that women never get time to relax.

Sue Elliot-Nichols has been talking to women about the lengths they have to go to to get a bit of time to themselves.
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