housewife
Example Sentences
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Tom is a law professor and his wife, Amy, is a frustrated and high-strung housewife.
Nina is also under social pressure to keep up with her fellow wealthy housewives’ habits, such as giving speeches to the PTA.
Its purpose was to care for "twelve poor feeble and impotent old men and four old women" who were looked after by a housewife responsible for cooking, cleaning, and general care.
From BBC
Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.
She mostly focused on raising her two daughters and being a housewife, according to South Africa's Daily Maverick news site.
From BBC
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