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homemaker

[hohm-may-ker] / ˈhoʊmˌmeɪ kər /


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His wife, a stay-at-home mom and homemaker, earned around $13,000 a year working in local school districts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

In another, he said he had been rejected by a woman who wanted to be a barista rather than a homemaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

There’s an additional slathering of irony in Garner, the woman behind “Alias” superspy Sydney Bristow, playing the happy homemaker.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

A 29-year-old homemaker in the Houthi-held city of Hodeida, where rebel media said the plane had landed, said she was worried more conflict lay ahead, "without producing any results, just making the current crises worse".

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

I don’t know what she thought about, how she felt about being a traditional homemaker as opposed to working a different job.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Depending on the salary, full-time mothers and homemakers — yes, it’s a full-time job too — give up anything between $450,000 and $1 million over their lifetime.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

More than 100 women, many of them homemakers, are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed "Power of Mama", patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Cooking shows in the U.S. date to the 1920s when Betty Crocker, a fictional character created by Washburn-Crosby, the predecessor of General Mills, provided practical cooking instruction to American homemakers on the radio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

I appreciate the way Stewart uplifted the feminist value of homemakers, reminding the world that nobody is “just” a housewife.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

Then he staged a series of luncheons with homemakers.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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