housewifery

Betty Friedan wrote that “housewifery expands to fill the time available,” and the same is true of bad political news.

I said to my girlfriends, "Full-time mothering and housewifery is way harder than what I do for work. Much harder. And there's way more at stake, obviously."

She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”

Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki.

But by his side we also have Samuel Richardson, whose novel “Pamela” was a blueprint for how chaste women should behave in the face of avid pursuit, encouraging a zeal for housewifery.