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What is the noun for housewife?

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housewife
  1. A woman, often unemployed, who spends most of her time maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs.
  2. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
  3. A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; – called also hussy.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Replacing the 1950s housewife with the 1990s superwoman is not a social revolution.”
housewifery
  1. The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Household goods. [16th-19th c.]
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  4. Examples:
    1. “They cannot champion gun ownership or housewifery because their theories pathologize those choices.”
      “The needlewoman's workbasket holds further associations with home, hearth, mothering and goodly housewifery.”
      “People, mostly women, felt suddenly obliged to ignite their creativity with their housewifery.”
housewifization
  1. The process by which the division of labor has relegated women to the role of housewife.
housewifeliness
  1. The quality of being housewifely.
housewifehood
  1. (rare) Synonym of housewifery
housewiferies
housewives
  1. plural of housewife
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I debated the issue with surgically enhanced feminists and flat-chested housewives.”
      “From schoolkids to students and housewives, we are all posed hand to ear, chatting into our own personal communicator.”
      “Rarely do we see accounts of how housewives struggled at home while the men of valor fought the battles and won the wars.”
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