Hosting a Thanksgiving dinner is not work; it is celebrating and socializing. Interacting with your 13-year-old is not work; it is relating.  It may be unfair that these tasks are dumped largely on women through default, guilt, or the pressure of "measuring up," but calling them part of the economy has always been somewhat iffy in my view. Yup, "nobody likes housework," but guess what? Neither do women. There's no housework gene or gender.