Two Greater Manchester mums fed up of doing the lion's share of their family's housework took drastic action - going on "strike" and leaving their homes for their husbands to pick up the domestic load. They appear in the new series of Channel Five's Mums on Strike which starts on Sunday, July 21. The duo will be seen LEAVING their family homes in Bolton and Oldham for a week.
They tell their husbands and kids to instead try their hand at household cleaning and management. Gaynor Eckersley, 60, from Bolton, and Sarah Ogden, 54, from Oldham both agreed to take part in the TV show after becoming sick and tired of shouldering the majority of housework tasks like cooking, cleaning, food shopping and tidying. READ MORE: 50 things to do with the kids in the school summer holidays in and around Manchester In the show, they will be seen quitting their family homes in despair.
They go and live in a hotel for a week, with their husbands and kids left to attempt to cook and clean the family homes without them. The two mums both say they signed up to the series in a bid to highlight the unfair division of labour at home. Statistically, women take on the majority of domestic tasks in the UK in male-female relationships, even within households where both partners are in paid employment.
Gaynor Eckersley is a self-employed hairdresser and is married to Paul, 59, a property developer; they live in a beautiful house in Heaton, Bolton and are parents to 17-year-old twin boys Devon and Dylan. Bu.