housewife
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Hathaway can handle anything, from a despondent housewife to a rifle-toting badass, but I’ve never seen her tasked to do both in a film this brisk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"The loss of the leader is heavier than losing our parents," Hoda, a 35-year-old housewife, told AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The housewife was accompanying a friend who lost everything.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Even before her husband’s death and her takeover as CEO of TPUSA, she was a highly-educated career woman only playing at being the demure housewife for his audiences.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
What could be more conventional than a housewife with three children, who is “dedicated” to her family????
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Tradwife content whitewashes history, but an honest look shows that contempt for housewives was a widespread theme in the past.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
German defence giant Rheinmetall on Sunday sought to smooth over a row caused by comments from its boss comparing Ukrainian factories producing drones to "housewives" making weapons in their kitchens.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
“The Golden Life” will no longer feature Zarin among its cast of housewives, series producer Blink49 Studios announced in a statement on Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
I had heard that JetBlue had outsourced its entire reservation system to housewives in Utah, and I wanted to check this out.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
