First, there’s the challenge of picking up the husband’s socks from the floor, seeing to it that he has clean clothes at all times, and readying meals. That’s no mean feat.
Housewives are easy to identify. They are not employed for pay or profit. Their occupation, which indeed has no pay or profit, is the domestic affairs of their households. Note that it is an occupation, not an employment.
Housewives are defined too as married women in charge of the household, which puts them at a supervisory level in their occupation. There is also the meaning of housewife as a verb, which is “to manage with skill,” making her no different from the corporate CEO. Never mind its verb transitive meaning, which is “to economize”. The meaning is supposed to be archaic. Perhaps the tribute is an oxymoron as some housewives tend to do the opposite.
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2009
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