Let's talk about housewives, which Webster's defines as a married woman in charge of her household.
Okay! What are her usual tasks?
Housewife
A housewife (also known as a homekeeper) is a woman whose work is running or managing her family's home—caring for her children; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family; buying goods that the family needs for everyday life; housekeeping, cleaning and maintaining the home; and making, buying and/or mending clothes for the family—and who is not employed outside the home (a "career woman"). A housewife who has children may be called a stay-at-home
mother or mom and a househusband may be called a "male homemaker" or stay-at-home father.
"Webster's Dictionary" defines a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household. The British "Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary" (1901) defines a housewife as "the mistress of a household; a female domestic manager; a pocket sewing kit". (A small sewing kit is sometimes called a "housewife" or hussif.)
Throughout history, women have usually