Reply To: Serving Your Husband Before Your Father

exemption from time is an asmakhta – there are more exceptions than not … I am thinking women are exempt by the principle “osek b’ mitzva patur mimitzvah”. Almost anything the women is doing when taking care of the house is a part of the mitzva – chesed, assisting in learning, chinuch, etc so she does not need to interrupt to do _other_ mitzvot