Many people just don't realize how much a housewife does these days. She manages the home, which is a full time job! Cooking, cleaning, caring for the children, shopping, etc.
Yes I can imagine! There is so much work involved with a house and having kids.
Now these days, many call a housewife a stay-at-home-mother SAHM, and the stay at home dads are called SAHD. Which wasn't very popular until the last 10 years or so, for dads to stay home.
Yes, it is a new thing with more woman working. It's a lot of work to stay home thought. I think I would get tired of it.
Yes, I guess it depends on each woman. Many feminists believe that it is ignored in the formulations of economic output, like the GDP, and believe it shouldn't be.
Yeah, some people have extreme opinions. I think there is a more even playing field these days.
Yes, it is. The issue of all of the work that a housewife does, but yet doesn't get a check and really depends on the husband for all of the financial dependency, no doubt has been a major problem for many housewifes.
Do you know if they can "tax" their time spent at home? Like in income tax?
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
Rolling Stone" magazine, Dylan queried the validity of the term Never Ending Tour, saying: Critics should know there is no such thing as forever. Does anybody call Henry Ford a Never Ending Car Builder? Anybody ever say that Duke Ellington was on a Never Ending Bandstand Tour? These days, people are lucky to have a job. Any job. So critics might be uncomfortable with my working so much. Anybody with a trade can work as long as they want. A carpenter, an electrician. They don't