homemaker
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Her father, Jaiveer, works as a home guard, while her mother, Joginder, is a homemaker.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
There’s an additional slathering of irony in Garner, the woman behind “Alias” superspy Sydney Bristow, playing the happy homemaker.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Burden’s marriage began to settle into the traditional gender roles of homemaker and breadwinner, despite the fact that it was Burden who had financed their lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
The son of a doctor of traditional medicine and a homemaker, Balen studied to be a civil engineer, and later helped rebuild homes lost in Nepal’s deadly 2015 earthquake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
I don’t know what she thought about, how she felt about being a traditional homemaker as opposed to working a different job.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Cooking shows in the U.S. date to the 1920s when Betty Crocker, a fictional character created by Washburn-Crosby, the predecessor of General Mills, provided practical cooking instruction to American homemakers on the radio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
His workbook from 1945 showed homemakers and D.I.Y. types how to impose whimsy on their own lives and furniture via upcycling.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
An Indian court's recent verdict that significantly expands the rights of homemakers over their husband's property has been hailed as a positive sign by women's rights advocates.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
Thus, the shift in the aesthetics of play kitchens may, at least in part, point to the growing pressure some homemakers feel to turn their own kitchens into a trophy of domestic achievement.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2023
She had seen an arrangement of driftwood and dried seaweed in the homemakers section of the newspaper.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
