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A survey conducted by multivitamin brand, Pharmaton, has found that a mother’s work is never done, with 40 per cent of mums in Ireland spending between two and four hours on housework each day.

It’s official. Women make such an enormous contribution to the home that they are in fact worth more than the house itself. Indeed, a new survey by insurance company Caledonian Life has confirmed something that women have always known - they are invaluable in home life - and not just in terms of keeping everyone happy.

A home kept clean and comfortable with the minimum effort and expense has been the dream of people for generations. Good Housekeeping promised us back in 1922 that “the time spent on housework can be enormously reduced without any loss of comfort”. All true of course for those who may have had the luxury of a maid, a cook, and sometimes a nanny to lighten the domestic load. Manuals in the early part of the century often were often full of budgets, timetables, and how to run a home with live in staff.