housewife

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

In 1899 Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening,” about a mutineering New Orleans housewife, challenged conventions of marriage and motherhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

Jim’s mother had studied at the Union Theological Seminary under several famous theologians and became a Confucian scholar, ending up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

This focus on women's economic role has also shaped politics: in 2021, Tamil actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan promised "salaries for housewives".

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

The women were modest middle-aged and elderly housewives, not flamboyant attention-seekers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling