Profession is literally &#x27;a paid occupation&#x27; and homemakers aren&#x27;t paid - so homemaking would be an occupation but not a profession. Furthermore, as the parent mentioned, there aren&#x27;t really unmarried homemakers, except those who are independently wealthy. Someone may be a physicist or nurse and then _become_ a homemaker.<p>All this isn&#x27;t to to say that homemaking isn&#x27;t challenging or exhausting (it can be), just that it doesn&#x27;t really qualify as a profession. I don&#x27;t think the parent poster was implying it wasn&#x27;t difficult, just that it doesn&#x27;t fit within the framework of professions.