Is housework 'real' work?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

A Spanish court has awarded a divorced wife backpay compensation and an ongoing pension for her housewifely contribution to the marriage after she was left without funds or assets by her marriage under a separation of property regime 25 years ago finally broke down.

Domestic labour as an economic contribution? Now there's a thought... 

[Praktica]

Nah - real work is only done by guys - usually really heavy stuff, like renting out houses, moving money around, and selling soap...

[Agent_24]

Of course it's real work.
If you hired a maid to do the same job you'd be paying them.