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A new series of a Channel 5 programme delves into the domestic lives of British families – and looks at what happens when over-worked wives and mothers have had enough.
Mums on Strike, which restarts on Sunday, visits ‘some of the UK’s most unequal households’ in which one partner is responsible for more of the domestic load than anyone else in the home.
Each episode features two families in which usually (but not always) the woman is sick of being the main household’s dogsbody.
In a last-ditch effort to show just how much work they do in the house, the family member who does the most ‘goes on strike’ for a week, leaving all the chores to the others for a change.
‘Those left behind must try and muscle through one week without the family linchpin, as we uncover the real dynamics of the household,’ says a statement describing the …