housewives

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German defence giant Rheinmetall on Sunday sought to smooth over a row caused by comments from its boss comparing Ukrainian factories producing drones to "housewives" making weapons in their kitchens.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

“The Golden Life” will no longer feature Zarin among its cast of housewives, series producer Blink49 Studios announced in a statement on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Social media’s entire “tradwife” genre is about professional content creators pretending to be submissive housewives to sell advertising.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2025

But the vacuum cleaner did it faster and better, and soon Mrs. Jones was the envy of all the other housewives in town—so they bought vacuum cleaners, too.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien