"A housewife (also known as a homemaker) is a woman whose work is running or managing her family´s home—caring for her children; buying, cooking, and storing ...
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food for the family; buying goods that the family needs for everyday life; housekeeping, cleaning and maintaining the home; and making, buying and/or mending clothes for the family—and who is not employed outside the home (a career woman). A housewife who has children may be called a stay-at-home mother or mom.
Webster´s Dictionary defines a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household. The British Chambers´s Twentieth Century Dictionary (1901) defines a housewife as "the mistress of a household; a female domestic manager; a pocket sewing kit". (A small sewing kit is sometimes called a huswif,:115 housewife or hussif.)" - (en.wikipedia.org 28.05.2021)