Judith Warner sez: I am a robot housewife drudge just like Betty Friedan’s suburban housewife of 1963 — even though I write books that get on the cover of Newsweek and get a blog on the New York Times website and publish op-eds on the Times editorial page like this one today!

The gender caste system is still alive and well in most of our households. After all, no one really wants to do the scrubbing and folding and chauffeuring and mopping and shopping and dry-cleaner runs….Once the money for outsourcing runs dry, it’s the lower-status member of the household who does these things. It is the lower-status member of the household who is called a “nag” when she repeatedly tries to get other members of the household to share in doing them.

Good God. Don’t people like Judith Warner know how they sound?