We all know George Orwell was a brilliant storyteller and a canny satirist. Was he also a feminist?
This Brain Pickings post highlights an entry from his diary in which he describes helping a housewife with the laundry:
The position now-a-days is anomalous. The man is practically always out of work, whereas the woman occasionally is working. Yet the woman continues to do all the housework and the man not a handsturn, except carpentering and gardening.
