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FED-UP MUMS MOVE OUT LEAVING PARTNERS AND KIDS TO DO THE CHORES FOR NEW TV SHOW

- DIANNE BOURNE

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.

The duo are 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.

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.

But Gaynor is fed up with doing '80 per cent of the household chores' and thinks the twins are old enough to start putting in a shift too.

But dad Paul has different ideas and doesn't want their abode to become a 'work house'.

Meanwhile in Grotton, Oldham, Sarah Ogden, 54, is fed up that husband David, also 54, and their 16-yearold son Alfie never help her out with the chores.

Mum-of-two Sarah, a part-time dog groomer, felt that she's morphed into a housemaid. For husband David, an operations manager, the old-fashioned status quo is working.